id:			156856
accession number:	1992.71
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.71
updated:		2025-02-15 12:46:40.489000

Ghost and Oil Lamp, 1810. Tani Bun'ichi (Japanese, 1787–1818). Hanging scroll, ink, color, and gold on silk; painting only: 109.2 x 48.9 cm (43 x 19 1/4 in.); including mounting: 187.3 x 65.4 cm (73 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1992.71

title:				Ghost and Oil Lamp
title in original language:	
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creation date:			1810
creation date earliest:		1810
creation date latest:		1810
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creditline:			Kelvin Smith Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink, color, and gold on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Tani Bun'ichi (Japanese, 1787–1818)  - artist

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measurements: Painting only: 109.2 x 48.9 cm (43 x 19 1/4 in.); Including mounting: 187.3 x 65.4 cm (73 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	artist's inscription on stem of oil lamp
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Julie Mehretu: Portals
	opening date:   2022-07-16T04:00:00
	<i>Julie Mehretu: Portals</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 13, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2014-07-21T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1992
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1992-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 78
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388

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IMAGES

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