id:			156172
accession number:	1991.9
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.9
updated:		2025-05-06 12:06:30.421000

Miracle of the Dragon, 1600s. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk; image: 109.2 x 58.5 cm (43 x 23 1/16 in.); overall: 205.4 x 76.4 cm (80 7/8 x 30 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1991.9

title:				Miracle of the Dragon
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creation date:			1600s
creation date earliest:		1600
creation date latest:		1699
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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measurements: Image: 109.2 x 58.5 cm (43 x 23 1/16 in.); Overall: 205.4 x 76.4 cm (80 7/8 x 30 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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).

	title:		Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation
	opening date:   2023-11-10T05:00:00
	<i>Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2023-May 5, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>The Cleveland Museum of Art; Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 27-July 21, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2014-01-27T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Alan Carter Covell and Kyu J. Pak-Covell, Idyllwild, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1991
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1991–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “Selected 1991 Acquisitions.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 2 (February 1992): 63–83.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 83, no. 180
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350

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IMAGES

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