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Two women doing needlework are confined in an interior space. The other 11 paintings in this Hua Yan album show men in nature. The women may experience the natural world only through the large moon-shaped window open to a garden. Prominently displayed in the garden is a Taihu stone, like <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.23">CMA 2022.23</a>. <br><br>Taihu stones are valued for their natural shapes and sculptural qualities and are a cultural peculiarity. These perforated limestones were originally sourced from Lake Tai in southeast China from where they got their names. Large ones were set up like sculptures in gardens, like the one in this painting.
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151033
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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden
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painting
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1
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151033
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painting
title
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden
description
Two women doing needlework are confined in an interior space. The other 11 paintings in this Hua Yan album show men in nature. The women may experience the natural world only through the large moon-shaped window open to a garden. Prominently displayed in the garden is a Taihu stone, like <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.23">CMA 2022.23</a>. <br><br>Taihu stones are valued for their natural shapes and sculptural qualities and are a cultural peculiarity. These perforated limestones were originally sourced from Lake Tai in southeast China from where they got their names. Large ones were set up like sculptures in gardens, like the one in this painting.
date
1745
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60475093
creators
23570
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Painting
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1
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import
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["Album","closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)"]
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China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
accession
1982.68.6
Source extras
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Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden, 1745. Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765). Album leaf; ink and light color on paper; album, closed: 15.4 x 18.5 x 3.1 cm (6 1/16 x 7 5/16 x 1 1/4 in.); each painting: 11.2 x 13.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund, 1982.68.6
collection
ASIAN - Album leaf
inscriptions
inscription
Seal, lower left corner
formerAccessionNumbers
82.68e
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 84, p. 53
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Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
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2026-05-29 07:48:12.019000
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151033
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Chinese Art
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ASIAN - Album leaf
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Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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