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Collection Online as of May 23, 2022

Rocks, Orchid, and Bamboo

蘭石竹圖

1662

Shitao 石濤

(Chinese, 1642-1707)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Handscroll, ink on paper

Overall: 31.8 x 266.7 cm (12 1/2 x 105 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1952.589

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's signature, inscription (with date of 1662), five seals

Inscription

Title colophon in four characters with signature and two seals on gold-flecked paper.

Inscription

Colophon with two seals.

Provenance
?-1952
(Howard Hollis and Co., Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1952-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Fong, Wen, and Shih-t'ao. “A Letter from Shih-T'ao to Pa-Ta-Shan-Jên and the Problem of Shih-T'ao's Chronology.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 13, 1959, pp. 22–53. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 34-35, fig. 5 www-jstor-org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 400-407, fig. 1
Exhibition history

Meaning of Nature in Chinese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 1, 1954).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.589