id: 140153 accession number: 1964.154 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.154 updated: 2023-09-19 11:02:25.189000 Bamboo and Insects, late 1100s. Wu Bing (Chinese, active 1190–1194). Album leaf; fan painting, ink on silk; image: 24.8 x 26.8 cm (9 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1964.154 title: Bamboo and Insects title in original language: 竹蟲圖 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1100s creation date earliest: 1190 creation date latest: 1194 current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall creditline: Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Album leaf; fan painting, ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wu Bing (Chinese, active 1190–1194) - artist --- measurements: Image: 24.8 x 26.8 cm (9 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature at lower left: 吳炳 Wu Ping. 1 unidentified seal reading "Lo-hsi." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 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). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan) opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Album leaves from the Sung and Yuan dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 26-May 30, 1970). --- PROVENANCE (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dean Perry) date: footnotes: citations: Mr. A. [Albert] Dean Perry [1910?–1987] and Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Wu Bing, a native of Piling, gained Empress Li’s favor and served as a painter-in-attendance at the court in Hangzhou during the Shaoxi reign (1190–94). The round fan painting shows a dragonfly hovering over a stalk of bamboo, a bush cricket (luowei) perching on a leaf, and a flying wasp.

Yellow leaf tips suggest the late summer or early autumn season. The chirping of the cricket sounds similar to the sound of a working loom; the insect is therefore also called weaving lady (fangzhi niang). The weaving season starts when the weather is about to turn cold—the cricket symbolizes early autumn. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties: [Exhibition], March 26 Through May 30, 1970. New York: The [China House] Gallery, 1970. page number: cat. no. 33 url: 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. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 32, p. 51 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 65-67 url: Tanenbaum, Mary. Fishing on the Terrace: A Collection of Writings, edited by Heather Parks. [Redwood City, CA]: Stanford University Press, 2018 page number: Reproduced: p. 32 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.154/1964.154_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.154/1964.154_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.154/1964.154_full.tif