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Birds and Ducks on a Snowy Islet

mid-1200s

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink and slight color on silk

Overall: 26 x 24.6 cm (10 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.)

Gift of the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1961.260

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not on view

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Inscription

3 additional seals: 1 of Wu T'ing (c. 1600); 2 of Li Pao-hsun (1858-1915).

Provenance

?-1961

(J. T. Tai 戴福保 [1910-1992], sold to the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art as a gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1961-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Cahill, James. The Art of Southern Sung China. New York: Asia House, 1962. cat. no. 9

Lee, Sherman E. and Wai-Kam Ho. "Scattered Pearls beyond the Ocean." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Feb., 1964), pp. 23-39. Reproduced: pp. 23-39, cat. no. 2 www.jstor.org

Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties: [Exhibition], March 26 Through May 30, 1970. New York: The [China House] Gallery, 1970. cat. no. 6

Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 26, pp. 47-48

Tanenbaum, Mary. Fishing on the Terrace: A Collection of Writings, edited by Heather Parks. [Redwood City, CA]: Stanford University Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 120

Exhibition history

The Art of Southern Sung China. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1962).

Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 26-May 30, 1970).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 11, 2004).

The Art of Southern Sung China. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 15-April 15, 1962).

Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

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