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15th–16th century

Not on view

Medium: Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
Dimensions: with mounting: 74 5/8 × 63 1/2 in. (189.5 × 161.3 cm)
without mounting: 67 1/8 × 34 3/4 in. (170.5 × 88.3 cm)
with rollers: 78 1/4 in. (198.8 cm)
Credit Line: Fielder Schillinberg, B.A., 1941, Collection, Gift of Lauren Ewing, Valerie Ewing Carney, and Nathaniel Mark Ewing
Accession Number: 2023.89.28
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

With C.G. Sloan and Company, Washington D.C. (inv. no. 1281) by 1980. Fielder Schillinberg (1920–2001), New York, and Vincennes, Ind., by 1980 [see note 1]; by descent to his nieces Lauren Ewing, New York, and Valerie Ewing Carney, New York, and his nephew, Nathaniel Mark Ewing, Vincennes, Ind., by 2001; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023

Note 1: According to information provided by Lauren Ewing, Fielder Schillinberg purchased art between the 1950s and 1980. (copy in accession file)

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Marks

Urn-shaped seal, in relief,　"Gyo" in J "Yu" in Ch 御 which most often indicate a work of/for an emperor or for someone of high rank.

Inscriptions

None

Signed