Family Gathering on New Year's Morning
Unknown Artist
late 1760s
Medium
Silk and wool: tapestry weave
Dimensions
257.8 × 377.8 cm
Classification
Tapestry
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of John L. Severance
Accession Number
1942.825
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This European-style tapestry depicts a family gathering, in a woven Western picture frame, that presumably once furnished the Hall of Cultivating the Mind (Yangxin dian) in the Forbidden City. The tapestry employs Western perspective and shading combined with the traditional Chinese subject of a family gathering in a palace, including motifs expressing wishes for good fortune and for a peaceful reign. In 1766, six French tapestries had been presented to the Chinese court. The Qianlong emperor wa...