id:			149183
accession number:	1978.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.1
updated:		2024-03-26 11:01:43.578000

Swinging Gibbon, late 1100s–early 1200s. Attributed to Xia Gui (Chinese, active c. 1209–c. 1243). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; image: 24.8 x 26.5 cm (9 3/4 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1978.1

title:				Swinging Gibbon
title in original language:	
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creation date:			late 1100s–early 1200s
creation date earliest:		1180
creation date latest:		1224
current location:		
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
technique:	Album leaf; ink and color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Xia Gui (Chinese, active c. 1209–c. 1243)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 24.8 x 26.5 cm (9 3/4 x 10 7/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist's signature: Hsia ? .
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

	title:		Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting
	opening date:   1981-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</i>. 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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1978
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1978–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–48.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 33; Mentioned: p. 46, no. 142
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613

	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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 59, pp. 76–77
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	“Back Matter.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 10 (December 1980).
	page number: 	Reproduced: Back cover
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159703

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IMAGES

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