Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Chinese-style garden wraps around the curved surfaces of this large bowl and its round cover. With its pair of birds on rocks with peonies on one side and chrysanthemums on the other, it is a type that is known in several examples found in Europe, where it was highly prized in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Its white body and palette of bright clear greens and blues with red and yellow were inspired by Chinese famille verte of the Kangxi era (1662–1722) and characterize the enameled ware traditionally known as Kakiemon porcelain.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birdsTureen with rocks, flowers, and birdsTureen with rocks, flowers, and birdsTureen with rocks, flowers, and birdsTureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.