Bird on a Flowering Branch
1100s
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Bird on a Flowering Branch, 1100s. China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 23.8 x 24.5 cm (9 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.); overall: 117 x 41.7 cm (46 1/16 x 16 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.371 The seal at the upper left is an official Yuan dynasty seal used on paintings and calligraphy in the imperial collection.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- album leaf mounted as a hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting: 23.8 x 24.5 cm (9 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.); Overall: 117 x 41.7 cm (46 1/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: 2 seals: 1 official seal of the Yuan Dynasty; 1 unidentified partial seal.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1985.371
- Credit Line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Exhibitions
- A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection, Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c), <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. 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)., <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 16-July 13, 2004).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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