The Knickknack Peddler
1212
Li Song
Li Song (Chinese, active c. 1190-c. 1230)
Chinese Art
The Knickknack Peddler, 1212. Li Song (Chinese, active c. 1190-c. 1230). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; image: 24.1 x 26 cm (9 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1963.582 There is a skull, upside down, near the top of the right basket.
- Maker/Artist
- Li Song
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.1 x 26 cm (9 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Artist's inscription: 嘉定壬申李嵩畫 Translation: Li Song painted this in the renshen year of the Jiading era [1212]. Inscription: 1 colophon and 4 seals: 1 colophon and 3 seals of Li Zuoxian 李佐賢 [1807–1876]; 1 seal unidentified.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1963.582
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1964), Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties, Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques, Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Fans: East and West, Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 11, 2004).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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