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Birds on a Peach Branch

1100s

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink and light color on silk

Overall: 24.8 x 25.7 cm (9 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.367

Location

not on view

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An insect is drawn to the scent of the ripe peaches. Is the bird going to catch it?

Provenance

(Heisando Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)

?–1985

The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1985–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

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. 70, pp. 89–90

Park, J. P. "The Art of being Artistic: Painting Manuals of Late Ming China (1550-1644) and the Negotiation of Taste." Artibus Asiae vol. 71, no. 1, 2011, pp. 5–54. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 7 www-jstor-org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org

Exhibition history

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).

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