Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Snow
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Object Details
- Artist
- Formerly attributed to Xu Daoning (ca. 1000-after 1066)
- School/Tradition
- Zhe School
- Provenance
- To 1916
- Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]
- From 1916 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]
- From 1920
- The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1005, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Style in Chinese Landscape Painting: The Song Legacy (May 17 to October 26, 2014)
- A Breath of Spring (May 17, 1999 to January 9, 2000)
- Chinese Painting: Che and Wu Schools (Mainstreams of Landscape Painting in the Ming Dynasty) (October 15, 1982 to March 17, 1983)
- Ming Dynasty Paintings (December 4, 1978 to June 14, 1979)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- ca. 1525
- Period
- Ming dynasty
- Accession Number
- F1916.32
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Hanging scroll mounted on panel; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 141.4 x 98.9 cm (55 11/16 x 38 15/16 in)
- Origin
- China
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- flower
- Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
- plum blossom
- snow
- China
- Chinese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1916.32
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye314a339fe-ff3c-40df-b794-bafcaf1fdb8d
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