id: 149880 accession number: 1980.12 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.12 updated: 2025-07-10 11:09:58.005000 A Hundred Birds and the Three Friends, 1400–1425. Bian Wenjin (Chinese, about 1354–1428). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 153.5 x 95.4 cm (60 7/16 x 37 9/16 in.); overall with knobs: 245 x 110 cm (96 7/16 x 43 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1980.12 title: A Hundred Birds and the Three Friends title in original language: 三友百禽圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1400–1425 creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1428 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase 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 * Bian Wenjin (Chinese, about 1354–1428) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 153.5 x 95.4 cm (60 7/16 x 37 9/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 245 x 110 cm (96 7/16 x 43 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's three seals: Pien yin Ching-chao; Sha-yang shih-chia; Ch'in shu ch'ing-lo. 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). title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016 opening date: 2016-08-01T04:00:00 Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1, 2016-February 6, 2017). title: Layers of Meaning: China’s Flora and Fauna in Painting and on Porcelain opening date: 2020-11-06T05:00:00 Layers of Meaning: China’s Flora and Fauna in Painting and on Porcelain. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Kozo Yabumoto 藪本公三, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1980 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1980- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 121, pp. 145–146 url: Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219. page number: Reproduced: p. 206; Mentioned: p. 218, no. 279 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159730 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: Reproduced: cat. no. 19, p. 62 url: Elliott, Jeannette Shambaugh. The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2007. page number: pp. 42–43 url: Sung, Hou mei 宋后楣. Research on the Depiction of Tiger and Magpies [虎鵲圖研究 = Hu que tu yan jiu]. Taipei: National Taiwan University, Institute of Art History 國立臺灣大學藝術史研究所, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 136, no. 5 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 231, fig. 1 url: Spee, Clarissa von. "From the SIlk Road to the Imperial Court: Chinese Textiles in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 50–56. page number: Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 9 url: Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 172, fig. 99 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.12/1980.12_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.12/1980.12_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.12/1980.12_full.tif