id: 145907 accession number: 1971.132 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.132 updated: 2025-12-08 14:27:57.540000 Lily and Butterflies, 1300s. Liu Shanshou (Chinese, active 1300s). Hanging scroll; ink on silk; painting: 160 x 58.4 cm (63 x 23 in.); overall with knobs: 277.7 x 85.2 cm (109 5/16 x 33 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1971.132 title: Lily and Butterflies title in original language: 萱蝶圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1368 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: Hanging scroll; ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Liu Shanshou (Chinese, active 1300s) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 160 x 58.4 cm (63 x 23 in.); Overall with knobs: 277.7 x 85.2 cm (109 5/16 x 33 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 萱蝶圖 translation: remark: inscription: Artist's 3 seals: Zhongxiao chuanjia [filial loyalty handed down in family 忠孝傳家]; Liu Shanshou yin 劉善守印; Suizhai 綏齋. translation: remark: inscription: 9 additional seals: 1 of Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 (1620–1691); 1 of Nalan Chengde (納蘭成德) [later known as Nalan Xingde 納蘭性德] (1655–1685); 3 of Zhang Daqian 張大千 (1899–1983); 1 of Wang Jiqian [C. C. Wang] 王季遷 (1907–2003); 3 unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1971 opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). 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: Scholar's Studio opening date: 1989-09-19T04:00:00 Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989). title: Pacific Standard Time: Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China opening date: 2024-09-14T04:00:00 Pacific Standard Time: Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China. The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA (organizer) (September 14, 2024-January 6, 2025) https://huntington.org/exhibition/duotiangong-growing-and-knowing-gardens-china. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691] date: 1600s footnotes: citations: Zhang Daqian 張大千 [1899–1983] date: ? by 1943–? footnotes: citations: C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1971 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1971– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Zhang, Daqian 張大千. Da feng tang shu hua lu 大風堂書畫錄. Chengdu: [publisher not identified], 1943. page number: p. 10(a) url: Zhang Daqian 張大千. Taifudo meiseki 大風堂名蹟. Kyōto: Benrido, 1955. page number: Reproduced: volume I, pl. 18 url: The Art Quarterly, XXXV, no. 1 (Spring 1972). page number: p. 81 url: 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: cat. no. 21 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. 347 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n367 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 101–102, cat. no. 82 url: Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. The Nature and Significance of the Collection of Liang Ch'ing-Piao. Taipei, Taiwan: Chung-hua ming-kuo, 1960. page number: Mentioned: p. 134, no. 157 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [中國繪畫總合圖錄 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第 1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇 [= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: #A22-005, p. 1-260 url: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. Hai wai yi zhen. Hui hua. 海外遺珎. 繪畫. Zhonghua min guo Taibei Shi Shilin qu: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1985. page number: Reproduced: fig. 96, p. 101 url: Tōkyō Daigaku 東京大学. Kaigai shozai Chūgoku kaiga mokuroku [海外所在中国絵画目錄. アメリカカナダ編 = Catalogue of Chinese paintings in foreign collections: America and Canada]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Tōyō Bunka Kenkyūjo Fuzoku Tōyōgaku Bunken Sentā, 1994. page number: p. 63 url: Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 308, no. 20 url: Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China. Edited by Phillip E. Bloom, Nicholas K. Menzies, Michelle Bailey, Duncan M. Campbell, Sarah Chen Huang, Xiao Huang, Shanshan Liu, et al. San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2024. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 88–89, no. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.132/1971.132_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.132/1971.132_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.132/1971.132_full.tif