Flowers and Birds of Spring
Chinese Paintings of Birds and Flowers, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, October 30-December 14, 1951.
Two silver pheasants flaunt their beautiful plumage on a rock, upstaging the pair of mynah birds chatting in the branches above them. This uplifting spring landscape may convey a wish for a harmonious life. Silver pheasants are associated with literary talent and trustworthiness.
With Chung Ku Chai, Liu Li Ch’ang, Peking (modern-day Beijing), China, 1933;
Purchased from Chung Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 149, no. 126.
