Bilang Lake

The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

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Bilang Lake

c. 1588

ArtistSong Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606)

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Medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: ASIAN - Album leaf
Origin: China, Jiaxing, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

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Provenance

Public

?–1998

(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1998–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta

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China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

By the 1500s, visits to historic and scenic sites in the lower Yangzi delta stimulated an increase of printed illustrated travel books. Topographical depictions of local scenery flourished.<br> <br>Leaves from this album illustrates sites around Lake Tai of the two adjacent counties Changxing and Wuxing (modern Huzhou). Song Xu, who lived intermittently in Jiaxing and Songjiang, must have passed through Wuxing by boat and thus knew the region. <br><br>The paintings are inscribed with gazetteerlike notations, suggesting that the album was produced for clients as commemorative works, a travel guide, or for “armchair travel” (<em>woyou</em>) in one’s mind.

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