id:			152548
accession number:	1985.364
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.364
updated:		2025-04-16 18:17:18.487000

Insects and Bamboo, 1200s. China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). Album leaf; ink and light color on silk; image: 23.8 x 25.6 cm (9 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.364

title:				Insects and Bamboo
title in original language:	竹蟲圖
series:				
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creation date:			1200s
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1299
current location:		
creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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culture:	China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)
technique:	Album leaf; ink and light color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Image: 23.8 x 25.6 cm (9 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	1 unidentified seal.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection
	opening date:   1988-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

	title:		China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
	opening date:   2023-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1980-11-07T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Heisando Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)
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	The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ? by 1980–1985
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			* <div><!--block-->1980 <em>Eight Dynasties</em> exhibition catalogue (cat. no. 33, p. 52) lists ownership information as "Intended gift to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith."&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985–
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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. 33, p. 52
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	Cunningham, Michael R. “Painting the Poetry of the Natural World.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 279–291.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 282; Reproduced: p. 284, fig. 5
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160039

	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. 66
	url:		

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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.364/1985.364_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.364/1985.364_full.tif