id: 163115 accession number: 2004.1.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.1.18 updated: Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 18, 1200s. China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Album, ink on paper; sheet: 34.1 x 38.3 cm (13 7/16 x 15 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange) 2004.1.18 title: Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 18 title in original language: series: series in original language: 佛道主題畫冊 creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange) copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Album, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 34.1 x 38.3 cm (13 7/16 x 15 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Wang Hui 王翬 [1632–1717] date: footnotes: citations: Li Jiale 李嘉樂 [jinshi of 1863] date: footnotes: citations: Zhu Hang 朱沆 [active 19th century] date: footnotes: citations: Dr. F. R. (Fredrik Robert) Martin [1868–1933], Stockholm, Sweden, and Munich, Germany date: 1910-? footnotes: citations: Mrs. L. M. Morris [20th century], England date: ?-1947 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, London, sale, 25 March 1947, lot 118, sold to Stephen Junkunc III) date: 1947 footnotes: citations: István “Stephen" Junkunc III [1904-1978], by descent to his son Stephen Junkunc IV date: 1947-78 footnotes: citations: (Stephen Junkunc IV [b. 1937], Miami, FL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1978-2004 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2004- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Zhong Kui’s bird-faced attendant carries a load of scrolls on his back. digital description: wall description: This leaf is part of an important album of 50 drawings encompassing three subjects: processions of Daoist deities to the celestial spheres, the Ten Kings of Hell, and Erlang’s Campaign to Rid Mount Guankou of Dangerous Beasts (soushan tu 搜山圖).

In this section of the Daoist pantheon, Zhong Kui 鍾馗, the hero who fights demons, is portrayed with two ghost attendants. One holds a handle at the end of which is a large wheel with drums. Thunder, which drums can evoke, is a theme of many of the Daoist Pantheon leaves in this album. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Martin, F. R.. Zeichnungen nach Wu tao-tze aus der götter- und sagenwelt Chinas. München: F. Bruckmann a.g, 1913. page number: url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 174-195 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.1.18/2004.1.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.1.18/2004.1.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.1.18/2004.1.18_full.tif