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Exhibition Review
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 62–65
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Reviewer:
Liu, Lihong (Liu, Lihong)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Paintings / Prints / Musical instruments / Furniture / Tapestries / Jades / Bronzes / Silks / Ceramics / Lacquerware / Carvings
museums and institutions:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
subjects:
Chinese art / Han Dynasty / Song / Yuan Dynasty / Qing / Ming
Reviewed Items
subjects:
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta Cleveland Museum of Art 10th September 2023– 7th January 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail from Spring in Jiangnan, by Wen Zhengming. 1530. Handscroll, ink and colour on paper. (Shanghai Museum; exh. Cleveland Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
4. Raft cup, attributed to Zhu Bishan. China, Yuan or early Ming dynasty. Silver with chased decoration, length 16 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Lamp in the form of a bull. China, Eastern Han dynasty. Bronze with silver inlay, height 46 cm. (Nanjing Museum; exh. Cleveland Museum of Art).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Installation view of China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
Book Review
Chinese Ceramics. From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty
11/2011 | 1304 | 153
Pages: 746
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Editor:
Kerr, Rose (Kerr, Rose; K., R.)
Subjects
places:
China
print:
Ceramics
subjects:
Ceramics / Chinese / Excavations / Earthenware / Prehistoric / Sui / Tang / Five Dynasties / Song / Liao / Jin (Six Dynasties) / Ming / Qing
subjects:
Surveys
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Chinese Ceramics. From the Paleolithic Period through the Qing Dynasty | editor: Bower, Virginia L. , editor: Li Zhiyan
Book Review
Song Ceramics
05/1983 | 962 | 125
Pages: 306-307
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Reviewer:
Watson, William (Watson, William; W., W.)
Subjects
places:
China
subjects:
Chinese / Ceramics / Song
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Song Ceramics | author: Tregear, Mary
Article
To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta
05/1972 | 830 | 114
Pages: 312+314-323
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Author:
Lee, Sherman E. (Lee, Sherman E.; Lee, Sherman)
Subjects
artists:
Tao Hong, act. 1633
artists:
Gong Xian, c.1620-1689
artists:
Qian Xuan , c.1235-c.1305
artists:
Zhao Zhong, act. 13-14th c.
artists:
Fanyin Tuoluo, act. mid-14th c.
artists:
Yue Zheng, 1418-1473
artists:
Lu Wenying, act. late 15th-early 16th c.
artists:
Luo Zhichuan
artists:
Shen Zhou, 1427-1509
artists:
Guo Xi, 1023 - ca.1085 CE
artists:
Ma Lin, b.c. 1185-d. after 1256
dates:
1200-1499 / 1500-1699
museums and institutions:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
places:
China / Zhejiang
subjects:
Yüan
subjects:
Ming / Song
subjects:
Zhe (Style) / Scrolls (Rolls)
subjects:
Chinese painting
subjects:
Flowers / Botanical drawings
subjects:
Buddhist / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
51. Ramblers over a Windy Stream, by Lo Chih-ch'uan. Yüan Dynasty. Album Leaf, Ink on Silk, 24.3 by 25 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John Huntington Collection, 15.536.)
Attributed works:
52. Detail of Fig.51. [Ramblers over a Windy Stream, by Lo Chih-ch'uan. Yüan Dynasty. Album Leaf, Ink on Silk, 24.3 by 25 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John Huntington Collection, 15.536.)]
Attributed works:
53. A Clear Day in Autumn Mountains and Streams, by Kuo Hsi. Northern Sung Period. (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.)
Attributed works:
55. Detail of Fig.57. [The Second Coming of the Fifth Patriarch, by Yin-t'o-lo. Indara, Active c. Mid-Fourteenth Century. Yüan Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink on Paper, 32.7 by 44.6 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 67.211.)]
Attributed works:
57. The Second Coming of the Fifth Patriarch, by Yin-t'o-lo. Indara, Active c. Mid-Fourteenth Century. Yüan Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink on Paper, 32.7 by 44.6 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 67.211.)
Attributed works:
58. Ink Flowers, by Chao Chung. Dated 1361. Yüan Dynasty. Handscroll, Ink on Paper, 31.75 by 153.2 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 67.36.)
Attributed works:
59. Doves and Pear Blossoms (Li-hua chiu-tzu), by Ch'ien Hsuan (c.1235-After 1300). Yüan Dynasty. Handscroll, Ink and Colour on Paper, 30.5 by 98 cm. (Cincinnati Art Museum.)
Attributed works:
60. Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds, by Ma Lin. Probably Dated 1256. Southern Sung Dynasty. Album Leaf, Ink and Slight Colour on Silk, 25 by 26.6 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 61.421.)
Attributed works:
61. River Village in a Rainstorm, by Lü Wen-ying. c.1490, Ming Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Colour on Silk, 169.2 by 103.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 70.76.)
Attributed works:
62. Detail of Fig.61. [River Village in a Rainstorm, by Lü Wen-ying. c.1490, Ming Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Colour on Silk, 169.2 by 103.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 70.76.)]
Attributed works:
63. Landscape, by Hsia Kuei. Southern Sung Dynasty. Ink on Silk, 22.5 by 25.4 cm. (National Museum, Tokyo.)
Attributed works:
64. Acacia Tree and Chrysanthemums in the Style of Wang Yüan, by Shên Chou (1427-1509). Dated 1468. Ming Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink and Colour on Paper, 288 by 106 cm. (Collection Mrs A. Dean Perry, Cleveland.)
Attributed works:
65. Squirrels and Grapes, by Yüeh Cheng (1418-1473). Ming Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink and Colour on Paper, 122.2 by 41.6 cm. (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City.)
Attributed works:
66. Landscape in the Style of Tung Yuan and Chü-jan, by Kung Hsien (c.1620-1689). Ch'ing Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink with White on Silk, 216.4 by 37.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 69.123.)
Attributed works:
67. Marshy Landscape, by Kung Hsien (c.1620-1689). Ch'ing Dynasty. Album Leaf, Ink on Paper, 31.75 by 45.7 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 70.19.)
Attributed works:
68. Clouds Visiting a Mountain Retreat, by T'ao Hung. Dated 1633. Late Ming Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink on Paper, 176.5 by 101 cm. (ClevelandMuseum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 71.19.)
Attributed works:
69. Detail of Fig.68. [Clouds Visiting a Mountain Retreat, by T'ao Hung. Dated 1633. Late Ming Dynasty. Hanging Scroll, Ink on Paper, 176.5 by 101 cm. (ClevelandMuseum of Art)]
Non-western art unattributed:
54. Detail of Fig.56. [Shakyamuni Coming Down from the Mountains. Southern Sung Period. Inscription Dated 1244. Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Colour on Paper, 74.6 by 32.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 70.2.)]
Non-western art unattributed:
56. Shakyamuni Coming Down from the Mountains. Southern Sung Period. Inscription Dated 1244. Hanging Scroll, Ink and Slight Colour on Paper, 74.6 by 32.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 70.2.)
Article
The Avery Brundage Collection in San Francisco
04/1967 | 769 | 109
Pages: 195-199+201
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Author:
Sullivan, Michael (Sullivan, Michael)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Brundage, Avery
dates:
1960-1969
museums and institutions:
de Young Museum, San Francisco, United States
places:
United States / San Francisco
places:
China / Korea / Japan
places:
India
places:
Thailand
subjects:
Chinese painting / Japanese painting / Collections, Private
subjects:
Indian sculpture / Chinese sculpture / Japanese sculpture
subjects:
Bronzes
subjects:
Korean
subjects:
Buddhist / Gandhara / Khmer (Thai period)
subjects:
Ceramics / Zhou (Chou) / Yüan / Yüeh Yao (Chinese ceramics style)
subjects:
Song / Tang / Celadon
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
10. One of a Pair of Vases. Chinese, Yüan Dynasty, Late Thirteenth or Early Fourteenth Century A. D. Porcelain, Decorated in Underglaze Red; Height, 24.2 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
11. Covered Vase. Chinese, Chekiang, Tenth Century A. D. Yüeh Stoneware, Covered with Greyish-Green Glaze; Height, 40.6 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
12. Vase. Chinese, Tz'u-chou Ware, Sung Dynasty, Twelfth-Thirteenth Century A. D. Stoneware Decorated with Flowers in Black Glaze against a White Ground; Height, 76.2 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
13. Jar. Chinese, Third or Fourth Century A. D. Reddish Stoneware with Olive-Green Glaze; Height, 44.5 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Haniwa Warrior. Japanese, Fifth-Sixth Century A. D. Clay; Height, 91 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Standing Buddha. Korean, Great Silla Period, Eighth Century A. D. Bronze; Height, 48.2 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Avalokiteśvara. Thailand, Pre-Khmer Period, c.Ninth Century A. D. Bronze; Height, 70 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
5. The Kōnin Shōnin E-den Scroll; Section Mounted as a Hanging Scroll. Japanese, Fourteenth Century A. D. Height, 34.6 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Three Female Aspects of Brahmā. Indian, Early Chola Period, Ninth-Tenth Century A. D. Stone; Height, 73.6 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Yu. Chinese, Late Shang (Anyang) Style, Twelfth-Eleventh Century B. C. Bronze; Height, 37.5 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Square Ting. Chinese Early Western Chou, c. 1024-1005 B. C. Bronze; Height, 25.4 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
9. Bowl. Chinese, Western Chou, c. Eighth Century B. C. Buff Stoneware with Olive-Green Glaze; Height, 5.1 cm. (Brundage Collection.)
Book Review
The Arts of the Sung Dynasty. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1959-60
08/1963 | 725 | 105
Pages: 379
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Michael (Sullivan, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1950-1959
places:
England
subjects:
Ceramics / Art periodicals / Summaries
subjects:
Chinese / Chinese Art / Song
subjects:
Oriental Ceramic Society
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Arts of the Sung Dynasty. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1959-60 | :
Article
Gilded Wares of Sung and Koryo. III. Gilded Koryo Wares
11/1956 | 644 | 98
Pages: 400-402
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Author:
Gompertz, Godfrey Saint George Montague (Gompertz, Godfrey Saint George Montague; Gompertz, Godfrey; Gompertz, G. S. G. M)
Subjects
patrons:
Kublai Khan, 1216-1294
places:
China / Korea
sources:
Xu Jing, 1091-1153
subjects:
Chinese Art / Chinese / Korean / Ceramics / Pottery
subjects:
Song / Koryo
subjects:
Celadon
subjects:
Gilding / Techniques
subjects:
Sources
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
11. Section of Koryo Celadon Jar Bearing Inlaid and Gilt Ornament. Height, 25.4 cm. (Formerly in Kaesong Museum.)
Non-western art unattributed:
12. Koryo Celadon Box with Inlaid Decoration and Traces of Gilt Star or Flower on Cover. Diameter, c.6 cm. (Japanese Private Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
13. Koryo Black-Glazed Bowl. Diameter, c. 17.5 cm. (Japanese Private Collection.)
Non-western art unattributed:
14. Koryo ccladon Bowl with Inlaid and Gilt Ornament. Diameter, 19 cm. (Prince Yi Household Museum, Seoul.)
Non-western art unattributed:
15. Koryo Celadon Double-Gourd Vase with Inscription 'Porcelains Ornamented with Gold'. Height, 39.3 cm. (Prince Yi Household Museum, Seoul.)
Article
Gilded Wares of Sung and Koryo I - Gilded Sung Wares, II - Black, Red and Purple Ting
09/1956 | 642 | 98
Pages: 300+302-308
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Author:
Gompertz, Godfrey Saint George Montague (Gompertz, Godfrey Saint George Montague; Gompertz, Godfrey; Gompertz, G. S. G. M)
Subjects
places:
China / Korea
places:
Japan / Tokyo
places:
Shanxi
sources:
Xiang Yuanbian, 1525-1590
subjects:
Chinese Art / Chinese / Korean / Ceramics
subjects:
Koryo / Song / Pottery
subjects:
Tenmoku / Gilding / Techniques
subjects:
Ding Yao (Chinese ceramics style) / Tz’u-chou Yao (Chinese ceramics style)
subjects:
Celadon
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
10. Red-Brown (kaki temmoku) Bowl with Gilded Decoration of Butterflies and Flowers. Diameter, 12.9 cm. (Mr Tsuneichi Inouye, Tokyo.)
Non-western art unattributed:
11. Facsimile Drawing of Gilt Design on kaki temmoku Bowl in Seoul. Diameter, 17.2 cm. (Prince Yi Household Museum.). 12. Detail of Gilt Design on Black-Glazed Bowl. (Muscum of Art, Hakone.) For Reverse View, See Fig.21., 13. Bowl and Cover Illustrated in Fig. 14. Diameter of Bowl, 11.6 cm., 14. Red-Brown (kaki temmoku) Bowl and Cover with Gilded Decoration of Fishes and Water-Weeds. (Private Collection, Japan.). 15. Tz'u-chou Vase with Painted Design of Butterflies and Flowers. Height, 17.9 cm. (Yokogawa Collection, National Museum, Tokyo.). 16. Tz'u-Chou Vase with Painted Design of Fishes and Water-Weeds. Height, 24.6 cm. (Private Collection, Japan.)
Non-western art unattributed:
17. Black Ting Bowl, Obverse. Diameter, 18.4 cm. (Dr Tamotsu Kakimoto, Tokyo.)
Non-western art unattributed:
18. Dark Brown Bowl with Purple Tone (Purple Ting?). Diameter, 12.1 cm. (Yokogawa Collection, National Museum, Tokyo.)
Non-western art unattributed:
19. Red-Brown (kaki temmoku) Bowl with Gilded Decoration of Butterflies and Flowers. Diameter, 15.8 cm. (Yamato Bunka Kan Collection, Osaka.)
Non-western art unattributed:
20. Black-Glazed Bowl with Gilded Floral Decoration. Diameter, 13.9 cm. (Private Collection, Japan.)
Non-western art unattributed:
21. Black-Glazed Bowl with Gilded Floral Decoration: Reverse View, Showing Deeply-Cut Foot. Diameter, 19 cm. (Museum of Art, Hakone.)
Non-western art unattributed:
22. Reverse of Bowl Illustrated in Fig. 17.
Non-western art unattributed:
6. White Ting Bowl with Gilded Decoration of Flying Birds. Diameter, 17.5 cm. (Mr Tsuneichi Inouye, Tokyo.)
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Inside of Bowl Illustrated in Fig.9.
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Inside of Bowl Illustrated in Fig.10.
Non-western art unattributed:
9. Red-Brown (kaki temmoku) Bowl with Gilded Decoration of Peonies. Diameter, 13.1 cm. (Mr Tsuncichi Inouye, Tokyo.)
Article
A Further Note on the Date of the Admonitions Scroll
10/1954 | 619 | 96
Pages: 306-309
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Author:
Sullivan, Michael (Sullivan, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Gu Kaizhi
dates:
0900-0999 / 1000-1049
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
China / England / London
subjects:
Critical Reception / Dating
subjects:
Chinese painting / Scrolls (Rolls)
subjects:
Copies / Song / Tang
works:
Admonitions Scroll (British Museum, London)
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A. Diagram Demonstrating Conventions for Depicting Leaves in Chinese Paintings.
Western art unattributed:
4. Detail from the Lower Right Portion of the Mountain Forming the Third Illustration to the Admonitions Scroll, Here Dated to the Tenth or Early Eleventh Century. Chinese Handscroll. (British Museum.)
Short Notice
The Chinese Exhibition in Venice
09/1954 | 618 | 96
Pages: 282+284-285
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Author:
Swann, Peter C. (Swann, Peter C.)
Subjects
dates:
1950-1959
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
places:
Italy / China / Venice
subjects:
Polo, Marco
subjects:
Chinese Art / Chinese / Exhibitions
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Bronzes / Art objects
subjects:
Ceramics / Silverwork / Metalwork / Song / Tang
subjects:
Chinese painting / Porcelain / Ming
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Leaf (Showing Man in a Boat Gazing at a Cliff) from an Album, by Tao-Chi (Seventeenth Century). 21.3 by 17.3 cm. (Dr Franco Vannotti Collection, Lugano.)
Non-western art unattributed:
19. Ceremonial Axe, Yin Dynasty. Bronze. Height, 35 cm. (Hans Jürgen von Lockow Collection, Cologne.)
Non-western art unattributed:
20. Fang Ku, Yin Dynasty. Bronze. Height, 30 cm. (Hans Jürgen von Lochow Collection, Cologne.)
Non-western art unattributed:
22. Lung Ch'uan Plate, Thirteenth Century. Diameter, 43.1 cm. (Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London.)
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