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Old Trees by a Wintry Brook by Wen Zhengming, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Old Trees by a Wintry Brook

Wen Zhengming (d. 1559)

1551 · Painting, hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

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Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons by Watanabe Shikō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons

Watanabe Shikō (d. 1755)

early-mid 1700s · Painting, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper

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Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (left screen) by Watanabe Shikō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (left screen)

Watanabe Shikō (d. 1755)

early to mid-1700s · Painting, Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper

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Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (right screen) by Watanabe Shikō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (right screen)

Watanabe Shikō (d. 1755)

early to mid-1700s · Painting, Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper

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Section of an Illustrated Tale of Genji Poetry Contest by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Section of an Illustrated Tale of Genji Poetry Contest

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1400s · Painting, section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper

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Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu) by Yueshan Daozong, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu)

Yueshan Daozong (d. 1709)

c. 1660–1709 · Calligraphy, hanging scroll; ink on paper

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Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

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1330–35 · Manuscript, opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

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Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Unrecorded maker

1330–35 · Manuscript, opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

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Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

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1330–35 · Manuscript, opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

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Ravana addresses Sita in the garden of Lanka, from Chapters 53 and 54 of the Aranya Kanda (Book of the Forest) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ravana addresses Sita in the garden of Lanka, from Chapters 53 and 54 of the Aranya Kanda (Book of the Forest) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)

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c. 1725 · Painting, Gum tempera, gold, and silver on paper

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Bowl with Old Pine and Poem by Seifū Yohei IV, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl with Old Pine and Poem

Seifū Yohei IV (d. 1951)

1914–46 · Ceramic, Porcelain with molded and carved design

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Nesting Bowls with Daoist Immortals by Seifū Yohei III, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Nesting Bowls with Daoist Immortals

Seifū Yohei III (d. 1914)

1893–1914 · Ceramic, Set of three bowls; porcelain with underglaze blue

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