id:			160737
accession number:	1998.78.5
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.78.5
updated:		2025-08-08 00:59:34.855000

Eighteen Views of Huzhou: Mt. Dong (Grotto Mountain), c. 1588. Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1998.78.5

title:				Mt. Dong (Grotto Mountain)
title in original language:	洞山
series:				Eighteen Views of Huzhou
series in original language:	湖州十八景圖
creation date:			c. 1588
creation date earliest:		1583
creation date latest:		1593
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creditline:			The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	China, Jiaxing, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	Album leaf; ink and color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606)  - artist
Song Xu (宋旭, 1525–c. 1606), was a versatile Chinese painter active in northern Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. He was skilled in landscapes, boundary paintings (界畫, paintings of architecture), figure painting, and Buddhist painting. Although born a commoner, he also cultivated the literati arts of poetry and calligraphy. He studied Chan Buddhism and eventually became a Buddhist priest himself.
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measurements: Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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

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PROVENANCE

	(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1998
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1998–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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: pp. 287-295
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IMAGES

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