id:			149880
accession number:	1980.12
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.12
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:44.904000

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:			

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

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CREATORS

* Bian Wenjin (Chinese, about 1354–1428)  - artist

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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.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Artist's three seals: Pien yin Ching-chao; Sha-yang shih-chia; Ch'in shu ch'ing-lo.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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).

	title:		Year in Review: 1980
	opening date:   1981-06-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1980</i>. 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
	<i>Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1, 2016-February 6, 2017).

	title:		Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation)
	opening date:   2020-11-06T05:00:00
	<i>Flora and Fauna (Chinese art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Kozo Yabumoto 藪本公三, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1980
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1980-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 121, pp. 145–146
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	Barnhart, Richard M., Mary Ann Rogers, and Richard Stanley-Baker. <em>Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and the Zhe School</em>. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 19, p. 62
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	Elliott, Jeannette Shambaugh. Th<em>e Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures</em>. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2007.
	page number: 	pp. 42–43
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	Sung, Hou mei 宋后楣.<em> Research on the Depiction of Tiger and Magpies</em> [虎鵲圖研究 = Hu que tu yan jiu]<em>. </em>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
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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: 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." <em>Arts of Asia</em> 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 50-56.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 9
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	Giuffrida, Noelle. <em>Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America.</em> Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 172, fig. 99
	url:		

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