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Sleeping Bird on a Prunus Branch

1400s

Bian Wenjin 邊文進

(Chinese, about 1354–1428)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Album leaf, ink on silk

Overall: 24.3 x 21 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1967.249

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Painted by Pien Ching-chao of Lung-hsi, painter-in-attendance of [Wu]-ying-tien. [seals] I-ch'ing-tung-chih; Pien shih Wen-chin

Provenance

?-1967

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

1967-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1967-present

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 25

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. cat. no. 122, p. 147.

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

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).