Bamboo and Wagtail Artist: Unknown

mid-14th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll: ink on silk, with ivory or bone rollers

Dimensions

without mounting: 33 1/4 × 15 3/4 in. (84.5 × 40 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Art Gallery Associates in honor of Mrs Paul Moore

Accession Number

1965.28

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Nanbokuchou period (1336–92)

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Mrs. Paul Moore (1885 - 1980), Morristown, NJ, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki, "What Makes Japanese Painting Japanese," in "Japanese Art at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 74–79, 81, fig. 6, 7
  • Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Art at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 36
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 304, ill
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 51, no. 77, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

Nature, botanical

Subject

bamboo (plant)

Marks

Inner box lid front bears title "Sekirei Yoshino cho" (Wagtail from the Yoshino Court). and the inner box lid interior bears date corresponding to the first month of 1961 recorded by Takaaki (must be Dr. Matsushita Takaaki, famous art historian in Japan) followed by his seal, "Takaaki".

Signed

Signature not found

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