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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1924.88
People
Liang Kai 梁楷, Chinese (late 12th - early 13th century)
Title
Winter Birds
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, album leaf
Date
13th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Song dynasty, Southern Song period, 1127-1279
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/206491

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Circular fan painting mounted as an album leaf; ink and slight color on silk; with signature reading "Liang Kai"
Dimensions
H. 24.6 cm x W. 25.4 cm (9 11/16 x 10 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • seal: lower right: square red intaglio collector's seal: Pan Shi Jian Cang (treasured by the Pan family)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
A 10-050 (Suzuki Kei)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1924
Object Number
1924.88
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Masterpieces of Chinese Bird and Flower Painting: a Loan Exhibition, October 30-December 14, 1951, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass., 1951), p. 17, cat. 10; pl. III-B
  • Sherman E. Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1954), cat. no. 22, pp. 40 and 146, repr. p. 40, fig. 22
  • 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-59 and I-433, no. A 10-050
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 28, p. 33

Exhibition History

  • The Art of Southern Sung China, Asia House, 04/15/1962
  • Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/15/1995 - 10/08/1995
  • Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/1995 - 06/09/1996
  • A Compelling Legacy: Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/24/2004 - 03/20/2005
  • China in Twelve Artworks, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

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