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The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Museum
Zhao Mengfu Writing the Heart (Hridaya) Sutra in Exchange for Tea
1542–43
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Provenance
Public?–1963
(Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918–2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1963–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
(Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918–2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). Edwards, Wen Cheng-ming (calligraphy only). University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (January 25-February 29, 1976). Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981). Wu School Painting Series: The Art of Qiu Ying. Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China (organizer) (November 10-December 20, 2015). Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 13, 2018-February 3, 2019). Mostra D'arte Cinese. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (1954). Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 22-April 22, 2002).
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Sourced Overview Evidence
The Yuan dynasty calligrapher Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322) is said to have transcribed the <em>Heart Sutra</em> for a certain priest named Li in exchange for tea. Later, during the Ming dynasty, the professional painter Qiu Ying from Suzhou painted this scene for his patron.<br><br>Here, Zhao Mengfu holds a brush and has a piece of paper laid out before him. On the table is an ink stone, an ink stick, and a small water dropper. Drops of water would dissolve the ink stick into liquid ink when it was ground on the flat square stone.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 5 structured exhibitions.
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