id: 143462 accession number: 1967.36 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.36 updated: 2023-03-25 11:14:24.991000 Ink Flowers, 1361. Zhao Zhong (Chinese, second half of the 1300s). Handscroll; ink on paper; overall: 31.8 x 153.2 cm (12 1/2 x 60 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1967.36 title: Ink Flowers title in original language: 墨花圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1361 creation date earliest: 1361 creation date latest: 1361 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: Handscroll; ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Zhao Zhong (Chinese, second half of the 1300s) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 31.8 x 153.2 cm (12 1/2 x 60 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 寶帶同心結，香羅合歡扇。/ 繡作錦鴛鴦，雙雙為君獻。/ 薔薇露灑熏籠衣，馨香奉君君勿違。 原初并題。 [印] 趙衷原初畫記 translation: remark: inscription: 翠袂素羅韈，玉臺黃金盃。浩歌渡弱水。天風卷海三山開，麻姑方平為招飲，蛟宮獻舞銀濤堆。 原初并題。 [印] 雲林清趣、[印] 趙衷原初畫記。 translation: remark: inscription: 右用湯叔雅慶元中所寫墨花法作此卷，又效李長吉體賦詩以題之。詩與畫雖未工，要皆出於古人之餘，譬猶欲成方圓而必求其規矩之用也，識者毋誚焉！至正辛丑八月望日，東吳野人趙衷原初謹識。 [印] 趙原初、[印] 傳世清玩 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: The Colors of Ink opening date: 1974-01-10T04:00:00 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). 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: Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections opening date: 2012-11-01T00:00:00 Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * To-So-Gen-Min, II. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928). * Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11, 2003-July 13, 2004). --- PROVENANCE Li Guochao 李國超 [20th century] date: footnotes: citations: Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], to his son, Stephen O. K. Chen date: footnotes: citations: (Stephen O. K. Chen [20th century], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1967 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1967– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This handscroll is a very rare example of ink flowers in the linear baimiao style of the fourteenth century. digital description: wall description: Zhao Zhong's flowers, each paired with a poem, echo the fine-style colored flowers of the academic tradition, but instead he used only ink. Fine lines define the contours of each plant, as well as the veins within each petal and leaf. Careful ink washes give subtle modeling to the forms.

The combination of lily, narcissus, and peony is unusual as the three belong to no known seasonal or symbolic system popular in the fourteenth century. Zhao’s medical training may have influenced the selection. Powdered lilies, for example, were prescribed to dispel grief, while the bark of tree peony roots was used as a treatment for various blood disorders. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. page number: p. 42 url: Xie, Zhiliu 谢稚柳. Tang wu dai song yuan ming ji 唐五代宋元名迹. Shanghai: Gu dian wen xue chu ban she 古典文学出版社, 1957. page number: Reproduced: no. 35, pl. 107 url: “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 10, 1967, pp. 302–346. page number: Mentioned: p. 346, no. 157; Reproduced: p. 334 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183 Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: cat. no. 183 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 262 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n286 Lee, Sherman. “To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 114, no. 830, 1972, pp. 314–312. page number: Reproduced: p. 318, fig. 58 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/876940 Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. 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. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 20, p. 113, pp. 62-63 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 346 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n366 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. 72, pp. 91-92 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 78-79 url: Shanghai bo wu guan. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012. page number: Reproduced: cat no. 52, pp. 483-491. 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 154–156 url: Xie, Zhiliu 谢稚柳. Tang Wu dai Song Yuan ming ji 唐五代宋元名迹. Shanghai: Shanghai ren min chu ban she, 2018. page number: Reproduced: pp. 209–211 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.36/1967.36_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.36/1967.36_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.36/1967.36_full.tif