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Returning Birds and Old Cypress

late 1100s–early 1200s

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink on silk

Image: 23.8 x 24.9 cm (9 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.); Overall: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1969.305

Location

not on view

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Inscription

1 unidentified seal reads: Yun-chou shan-jen [Mountain dweller of the cloudy islet].

Provenance

?–1969

Dr. Sherman E. Lee [1918-2008] and Mrs. Ruth Ward Lee [1917–2011], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1969–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

China House Gallery, New York, 1970: Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves, cat. no. 24.

Asia House Gallery, New York, 1974: Lee, Colors of Ink, cat. no. 7.

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 28, p. 48.

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

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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China, Southern Song dynasty

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