Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Snow

Object Details

• Artist

  Formerly attributed to Xu Daoning (ca. 1000-after 1066)

• School/Tradition

  Zhe School

• Provenance

  To 1916

  Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

  From 1916 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]

  From 1920

  The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1005, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Style in Chinese Landscape Painting: The Song Legacy (May 17 to October 26, 2014)

  A Breath of Spring (May 17, 1999 to January 9, 2000)

  Chinese Painting: Che and Wu Schools (Mainstreams of Landscape Painting in the Ming Dynasty) (October 15, 1982 to March 17, 1983)

  Ming Dynasty Paintings (December 4, 1978 to June 14, 1979)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1530s, 1520s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Lai-Yuan & Company

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Snow, Chinese Art, Flowers, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Plum blossom

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings