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Source Description
This scene of two Chinese pheasants with a flowering plum tree (a sign of the arrival of spring in Japan) is not painted. All the lines and surfaces are created by colored threads carefully stitched together into the silk. Consequently, the surface appears quite different from paintings on paper.
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Document identity
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154203
label
Birds in a Tree
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154203
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object
title
Birds in a Tree
description
This scene of two Chinese pheasants with a flowering plum tree (a sign of the arrival of spring in Japan) is not painted. All the lines and surfaces are created by colored threads carefully stitched together into the silk. Consequently, the surface appears quite different from paintings on paper.
date
c. 1700–1868
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60476300
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Textile
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 169.5 x 47 cm (66 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1988.246
Source extras
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hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silk
tombstone
Birds in a Tree, c. 1700–1868. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silk; overall: 169.5 x 47 cm (66 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Donald J. Wineman in memory of his wife, Susan, 1988.246
collection
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
citations
citation
"The Year in Review for 1988." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 76, no. 2, 1989, pp. 30-75.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 47 and 74, no. 208
creditline
Gift of Donald J. Wineman in memory of his wife, Susan
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2026-05-29 07:58:21.863000
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154203
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Hanging scroll
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hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silk
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