id:			154265
accession number:	1988.75
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.75
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:03.971000

Brush Holder with Figures in Landscape and Poetic Inscription by Wang Meilin from Jiading, 1800s. Wang Meilin (Chinese, active c. 1825). Carved bamboo; overall: 16 x 12.4 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1988.75

title:				Brush Holder with Figures in Landscape and Poetic Inscription by Wang Meilin from Jiading
title in original language:	筆筒
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1899
current location:		240B Chinese Decorative Arts
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Daoguang reign (1821-50)
technique:	carved bamboo
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Qing Dynasty
type:		Wood
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Wang Meilin (Chinese, active c. 1825)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 16 x 12.4 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	A ten-acre [home], a five-acre yard with a water pool, and a thousand bamboos. Don’t say the field is narrow, or the location remote. It is enough to accommodate the knee and rest the shoulder. It has a hall and a yard, a bridge and a boat. It has books and wine, songs and string [instruments]. An old man in the midst of it, his white beard flowing. [He] is moderate and satisfied, has no demands and needs. Like a bird he chooses a branch, builds a nest, and rests at ease. Like a fish in a swamp, that does not know how wide the ocean is. . . . All I like, lies before me. I drink a cup of wine from time to time, recite a [poem], wife and children play, chicken and dogs are at leisure, and I will grow old here.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1988
	opening date:   1989-03-01T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1988</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).

	title:		Scholar's Studio
	opening date:   1989-09-19T04:00:00
	<i>Scholar's Studio</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).

	title:		Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c
	opening date:   2018-08-13T04:00:00
	<i>Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 13, 2018-February 3, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Masaaki Yoshida, Kyoto, Japan, sold to to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1988
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1988–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"The Year in Review for 1988." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75.
	page number: 	Referenced: cat. no. 211, p. 74, Reproduced: p. 209
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061.

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IMAGES

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