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Maker(s):Li Shan
Culture:Chinese (ca. 1680-ca. 1762)
Title:Wisteria and Yellow Oriole
Date Made:1746
Type:Painting; Scroll
Materials:Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper
Place Made:Asia; China
Measurements:Overall: 93 7/8 in x 29 1/4 in; 238.4425 cm x 74.295 cm; Mount: 93 7/8 in x 25 11/16 in; 238.4425 cm x 65.24625 cm; Image: 71 7/16 in x 18 9/16 in; 181.45125 cm x 47.14875 cm
Narrative Inscription:  DATE: recto, lwr. ctr., vertical (brush and black ink): [Chinese character, Qian Long Eleventh Year Fall, August] ; SIGNATURE: recto, lwr. ctr., vertical (brush and black ink): [Chinese character, Drew and inscribed by Shan] ; SEAL: recto, lwr. ctr. (seal in red ink): [Chinese character, Fu Tang] ; SEAL: recto, lwr. ctr. (seal in red ink): [Chinese character, Shan Yin] ; INSCRIPTION: recto, lwr. ctr., vertical (brush and black ink): [Chinese character, The old luxuriant pine leans to the blue sky / The beauty of spring has gone and branches hung down / No one appreciate it after I finished painting the pine vine / Oriole out of the valley plays Xiao]
Accession Number:  MH 1971.32.J.PI
Credit Line:Purchase with the John Martyn Warbeke Fund
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Vertical scroll. A pine tree, resting on a piece of rock, extends from the right side of the work; a yellow oriole stands on a branch in the upper central part of the painting; calligraphic writing on the lower part.

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