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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 11
1200s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This album leaf depicts the Four Daoist Saints in martial garb from right to left: Field Marshal Tianpeng 天蓬大元帥, Vice Marshal Tianyou 天猷副元帥, True Lord Yisheng (He Who Cherishes Virtues 翊聖寶德真君), and True Lord Yousheng 祐聖真君. In addition, the painter added the figure of Cang Jie 蒼頡, the legendary inventor of written language. Marshal Tianpeng is represented in the manner of a Buddhist asura, with three faces and six arms.
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- Title: Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 11
- Date Created: 1200s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 34.2 x 38.3 cm (13 7/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: Wang Hui 王翬 [1632–1717], Li Jiale 李嘉樂 [jinshi of 1863], Zhu Hang 朱沆 [active 19th century], Dr. F. R. (Fredrik Robert) Martin [1868–1933], Stockholm, Sweden, and Munich, Germany, Mrs. L. M. Morris [20th century], England, (Sotheby's, London, sale, 25 March 1947, lot 118, sold to Stephen Junkunc III), István “Stephen" Junkunc III [1904-1978], by descent to his son Stephen Junkunc IV, (Stephen Junkunc IV [b. 1937], Miami, FL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.1.11
- Medium: Album, ink on paper
- Series in Original Language: 佛道主題畫冊
- Inscriptions: 天蓬大元帥; 天猷副元帥; 翊聖寶德真君; 倉頡; 祐聖真君
- Fun Fact: Marshal Tianpeng’s top two arms hold the sun with the three-legged crow and the moon with the rabbit pounding the elixir of life.
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange)
- Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
- Accession Number: 2004.1.11
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