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Leaf 8 Li Bing's colophon reads: Maple leaves drift in the wind, the autumn gusts bracing, Hibiscus flowers steeped with water, the evening breeze light. The moonlight's slanting beams shine upon dreaming lovers. No wonder that pair of fowl should dream of their absent partners.
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Document identity
localId
148243
label
Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8
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painting
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1
Source metadata
id
148243
contentType
painting
title
Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8
description
Leaf 8 Li Bing's colophon reads: Maple leaves drift in the wind, the autumn gusts bracing, Hibiscus flowers steeped with water, the evening breeze light. The moonlight's slanting beams shine upon dreaming lovers. No wonder that pair of fowl should dream of their absent partners.
date
early 1650s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60472834
creators
33538
genreSpecific
Painting
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
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China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
accession
1975.22.8
Source extras
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album leaf; ink and color on silk
tombstone
Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8 (山水花鳥圖冊), early 1650s. Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616–after 1694). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1975.22.8
titleInOriginalLanguage
山水花鳥圖冊
collection
ASIAN - Album leaf
inscriptions
inscription
Artist seal: Fan Qi 樊圻.
Poem by Li Bing 李炳 (17th century):
Maple leaves drift in the wind, the autumn gusts bracing,/
Hibiscus flowers steeped with water, the evening breeze light./
The moonlight's slanting beams shine upon dreaming lovers./
No wonder that pair of fowl should dream of the absent partners.
inscription_remark
The poem is an allusion to a Ming Play, Yuan Yang Meng 鴛鴦夢, by Ye Xiaowan 葉小纨 (c. 1613-c. 1657), in which two separated lovers can meet each other only in their dreams.
formerAccessionNumbers
75.22g
didYouKnow
The rock changes from ochre to green deepening into azurite blue accented with delicate dots of malachite green.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 63, no. 2, 1976, pp. 31–71.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 70, cat. no. 155
citation
Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
page_number
Reproduced: cat. no. 219, pp. 288-293
citation
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 379-385
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 07:37:19.440000
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148243
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Chinese Art
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ASIAN - Album leaf
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album leaf; ink and color on silk
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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