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Birds on an Autumn Inlet

c. 1200

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink and color on silk

Overall: 22.4 x 24 cm (8 13/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.369

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The pair of ducks displays plumage dimorphism with the male more ornamented or brightly colored than the female.

Provenance

(Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], 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. 27, p. 48

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).

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

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).

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