id:			153596
accession number:	1987.13
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.13
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:00.541000

Woman Holding Plum Blossoms, mid-700s. North China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Earthenware covered in white slip with traces of pigment; overall: 43.8 x 16.5 x 12.2 cm (17 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1987.13

title:				Woman Holding Plum Blossoms
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series:				
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creation date:			mid-700s
creation date earliest:		740
creation date latest:		760
current location:		239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	North China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique:	earthenware covered in white slip with traces of pigment
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 43.8 x 16.5 x 12.2 cm (17 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1987
	opening date:   1988-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'During Pan-Asian Collection period, exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

	Pettingil Collection
	date: ?-1959
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	The Pan-Asian Collection, New York, NY
	date: 1959-1981
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	(Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1981?-1987
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1987-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Bickford, Maggie. <em>Bones of jade, soul of ice: the flowering plum in Chinese art</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1985.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 192
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	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 75, no. 2, 1988, pp. 30–71.
	page number: 	Reproduced: no. 198, p. 47; Mentioned: no. 198, p. 71
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25160017

	"Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1987." <em>Gazette des Beaux Arts,</em> Mars 1988, Vol. 111, Issue 130, pp. 1-56.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 158, p. 27
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