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Pear Blossoms (Lihua)

Series TitleAlbum of Flowers (Hua-hui ts'e)
Artist Yun Shouping (Chinese, 1633 - 1690)
DateQing dynasty (1644-1911)
MediumAlbum leaf; ink and color on paper
DimensionsOverall: 9 5/8 × 11 1/2 inches (24.46 × 29.21 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number58-50/3
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Exhibition History

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7 – April 5, 1981; The Asia Society, December 3, 1981 – February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4 – November 17, 1982, no. 243.

Senses and Sensibilities in Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, December 14, 2008- February 15, 2009.

Provenance

Mayuyama & Co.;

Purchased from Mayuyama & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

 

Published References

Kei Suzuki, Yun Nan-t'ien[ Yun Shou-p’ing], Chugoku no Meiga by Heibonsha, ( Tokyo: 1957), 22-23, no. 10.

Kei Suzuki, “Un Nanden kaki zu” [An album of flowers by Yun Nan-tian]. Kokka, no. 788 (November 1957), 346, pls. 1-2.

 Sekai Meiga Zenshu, Chinese, vol. 1958.

Shirley Black, trans., Chapters from a Floating Life (London, New York, Toronto: 1960), pl. 3, 6.

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 66.

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), 328-329, no. 243, fig. 243C.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 329.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 371, fig. 269.

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