A Bird in Snow Yale University Art Gallery

16th–17th century

Medium: Album leaf, ink and color on silk
Dimensions: unframed: 9 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (23.5 × 22.2 cm)
framed: 14 1/2 × 13 in. (36.8 × 33 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1952.52.25.2
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Ton-ying and Company, (????) Paris and New York; sold to Mrs. William H. Moore (Ada Small Moore,1858–1955), New York, 1926; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1952

Bibliography

Louise Wallace Hackney and Chang-foo Yau, A Study of Chinese Paintings in the Collection of Ada Small Moore (London: Oxford University Press, 1940), 130, no. 30

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

animal art

Subject

birds (animals), snow

Marks

Moore seal on mounting. 4 seals on painting: Per Moore catalogue -Linshi jia cang [Cai Yu ], Qinfu shi jia [son on Ming emperor Hongwu], Wang Hongxu of Qing, 1 undeciphered.

Inscriptions

Per Moore catalogue -Huang Quan (c.900-965),

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