id: 147573 accession number: 1973.70.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.70.2 updated: 2023-12-07 09:19:53.496000 The Eight Hosts of Deva, Naga, and Yakshi, 1454. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; painting: 140.2 x 78.8 cm (55 3/16 x 31 in.); overall with knobs: 226.5 x 120 cm (89 3/16 x 47 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1973.70.2 title: The Eight Hosts of Deva, Naga, and Yakshi title in original language: 天龍八部羅叉女衆 series: series in original language: creation date: 1454 creation date earliest: 1454 creation date latest: 1454 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Painting: 140.2 x 78.8 cm (55 3/16 x 31 in.); Overall with knobs: 226.5 x 120 cm (89 3/16 x 47 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 大明景泰五年八月初三日施 [印] 廣運之寳 translation: remark: inscription: 御用監太監尚義王勤等奉命提督監造 translation: remark: inscription: 天龍八部羅叉女衆 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); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983). title: Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850 opening date: 1994-08-09T04:00:00 Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850. Spencer Museum of Art (August 9-October 31, 1994); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (November 30, 1994-January 29, 1995). title: Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2019-02-08T05:00:00 Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-August 11, 2019). title: Monk Artisans of the Joseon Dynasty opening date: 2021-12-06T05:00:00 Monk Artisans of the Joseon Dynasty. National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) (organizer) (December 6, 2021-March 6, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Ming imperial collection [Jingtai era, 1450–1456] date: 1450–1456 footnotes: citations: (Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1973 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1973- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “The Year in Review for 1973.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 61, no. 2, 1974, pp. 31–79. page number: Mentioned: no. 200, p. 79; Reproduced; p. 67 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513 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. 348 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n368 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: pp. 153-154; cat. no. 131b url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chugoku kaiga shi [中國繪畫史 = A History of Chinese Painting]. Tōkyō: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 4, no. 5b 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: Reproduced: no. A22-012, p. 1-260 url: Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 61 url: Barnhart, Richard M., Mary Ann Rogers, and Richard Stanley-Baker. Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and the Zhe School. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. page number: 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: Weidner, Marsha Smith, and Patricia Ann Berger. Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850. Lawrence, KS: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1994. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 25, p. 284 url: Weidner, Marsha, "Two Ming Ritual Scrolls as Harbingers of New Directions in the Study of Chinese Painting," Orientations (Jan/Feb. 2005), vol. 36, no. 1, p. 64 page number: Reproduced: p. 64 url: Wang, Chiang-Ling. "Weiderentdeckte Schatze: Drei Chinesische Thangkas im Ethnologischen Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin." Baessler-Archiv 62: 117-136. page number: Reproduced: p. 129, fig. 15 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. 211-217 url: Kungnip Chungang Pangmulgwan (Korea). Chosŏn ŭi sŭngnyŏ changin = Monk artisans of the Joseon dynasty: buddhist sculptures and paintings. 서울: 국립 중앙 박물관, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 70-73 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.70.2/1973.70.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.70.2/1973.70.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.70.2/1973.70.2_full.tif