Plum Blossoms and Bamboo | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1985.821
Title: Plum Blossoms and Bamboo
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: album leaf, painting
Date: 13th-14th century
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Yuan dynasty, 1279-1368
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/211358

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Album leaf; ink on paper
Dimensions: painting proper: H. 40 × W. 35.4 cm (15 3/4 × 13 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, MA, purchased from the estate of Rhode Island Senator Theodore Francis Green, July 1968; bequest to Harvard Art Museum

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
Accession Year: 1985
Object Number: 1985.821
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Signed in ink as by Yang Buzhi (sobriquet of Song artist Yang Wujiu, 1097-1171) and a seal reading "Yang Buzhi yin"; and collectors' seals of Shi Minggu and Xiang Yuanbian (1525-1590).

Publication History

Kubo Teruyuki 久保辉幸 (Jiubao Huixing), Yu hua fang zuo pu: Songdai zhiwu pulu xun ji, Guangxi kexue jishu chubanshe (Nanning, Guangxi, China, 2022), p. 116, fig. 3-2

Verification Level

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1985.821: Plum Blossoms and Bamboo