- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1924.88
- People
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Liang Kai, 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
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- 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
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- seal: lower right: square red intaglio collector's seal: Pan Shi Jian Cang (treasured by the Pan family)
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- A 10-050 (Suzuki Kei)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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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
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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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