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Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 10
Fan Qiearly 1650s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Leaf 10 Zhou Yi's colophon reads: Green bamboos stand alone with a snowy covering, In the deep recesses of a secluded valley, the evening breeze is light. White egrets are lean as shadows with the cold ripples frozen, They enter the gorge not just to admire the fish.
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- Title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 10
- Creator: Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616-aft 1694)
- Date Created: early 1650s
- Physical Dimensions: 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.)
- Provenance: Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1836–1924], (Robert G. Sawers [b. c. 1934], London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.22.10
- Medium: album leaf, ink and color on silk
- Original Title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects 山水花鳥圖冊
- Inscriptions: Artist's signature: Zhongling Fan Qi 鐘陵樊圻 ["Fan Qi of Zhongling" (Zhongling is another name for Nanjing.)]. Artist's seals: Fan Qi 樊圻, Poem by Zhou Yi 周儀 (mid 17th century–about 1705): Green bamboo stand alone with a snowy covering,/ In the deep recesses of a secluded valley, the evening breeze is light./ White egrets are lean as shadows with the cold ripples frozen,/ They enter the gorge not just to admire the fish.
- Fun Fact: Icicles encase the leaves and red berries of the <em>Nandina domestica </em>(Heavenly Bamboo).
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
- Accession Number: 1975.22.10
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