id: 163119 accession number: 2004.1.21 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.1.21 updated: 2022-04-07 09:02:03.615000 Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 21, 1200s. China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Album, ink on paper; sheet: 34 x 38.4 cm (13 3/8 x 15 1/8 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) 2004.1.21 title: Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 21 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 x 38.4 cm (13 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2019-02-08T05:00:00 Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-August 11, 2019). --- 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: 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).

This leaf belongs to a group of drawings of deities of the Daoist pantheon that inspired Chinese Buddhist iconography in many instances. Here we see the personified Nine Brilliant Constellations (Jiu yao 九曜). From right to left in the upper row are the sun and moon followed by three other stars: Venus as a goddess, Mars, and Yuebei. Proceeding in the lower row from right to left are Luohou, the comet Jidu, Ziqu, Jupiter, Mercury depicted as a female, and Saturn. --- 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: Huang, Shih-shan Susan. Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 288, Fig. 6.5 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 174-195 url: Vilbar, Sinéad. "A Celestial Landing: The Seven Stars and the Nine Celestials Descending at Kasuga." Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 68-77. page number: Reproduced: p. 69, fig. 2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.1.21/2004.1.21_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.1.21/2004.1.21_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.1.21/2004.1.21_full.tif