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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

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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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