id:			145430
accession number:	1970.80
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.80
updated:		2025-02-15 12:46:38.503000

Ink Plum, late 1400s–early 1500s. Peng Xu (Chinese, active 1488–1521). Hanging scroll, ink on silk; painting: 127.2 x 66.8 cm (50 1/16 x 26 5/16 in.); overall with knobs: 218.8 x 75.3 cm (86 1/8 x 29 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1970.80

title:				Ink Plum
title in original language:	墨梅圖
series:				
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creation date:			late 1400s–early 1500s
creation date earliest:		1488
creation date latest:		1521
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Peng Xu (Chinese, active 1488–1521)  - artist

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measurements: Painting: 127.2 x 66.8 cm (50 1/16 x 26 5/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 218.8 x 75.3 cm (86 1/8 x 29 5/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist's 2 seals at left middle edge of painting:  Peng shi Te-mien; Shih-chu.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1970
	opening date:   1971-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1970</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

	title:		The Colors of Ink
	opening date:   1974-01-10T04:00:00
	<i>The Colors of Ink</i>. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<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).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Yamanaka and Co., Ltd., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1970
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1970-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. <em>The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 30
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 350
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n370

	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 144, p. 169.
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	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 19, fig. 20; p. 149, fig. 1
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