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This image shows a black rock and bamboo coming from the left edge and two blocks of black text, one in the top left corner and one in the bottom right corner. There are many small red stamps around the image.

This image shows a rock with bamboo growing around it, coming from the bottom left corner and extending to the top right corner. There are two blocks of black text, one in the top left corner and one in the bottom right corner, and a number of small, red stamps scattered around the image. The rock and bamboo are both black, and the bamboo is growing all around the rock, though most prominantly towards the top right corner. The black text takes up both the top left and bottom right corners. There are eighteen individual red stamps around the image, all of them either square or rectangular in shape.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.95
People
Yao Shou 姚綬, Chinese (1423 - 1495)
Title
Bamboo in Rain
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
1494
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/202769

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper with signature reading Yao gongshou
Dimensions
135 x 65.7 cm (53 1/8 x 25 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: 2 colophons, 5 artists seals, 3 writers' seals, 9 collectors seals

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
A 10-012 (Suzuki Kei)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Earl Morse, Harvard Law School, Class of 1930
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.95
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Suzuki Kei, Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku, Amerika Kanada hen (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections), University of Tokyo Press (Tokyo, Japan, 1982), pp. I-55 and I-432, no. A 10-012

Exhibition History

  • Chinese Painting and Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/17/1991 - 01/26/1992
  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/07/2018 - 06/04/2019

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