Bronze Peacock Inkslab

Object Details

• Artist

  Forgery of Shen Zhou 沈周 (1427-1509)

• Provenance

  ?-by 1970

  Unidentified dealer, Hong Kong, method of acquisition unknown [1]

  By 1970-1987

  Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), acquired from Unidentified dealer, Hong Kong [2]

  From 1987

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Arthur M. Sackler loaned this object to the Princeton University Art Museum in 1970 and was assigned the loan number L245.70. The object was also included in the Princeton University Art Museum’s traveling exhibition “Rarities of Chinese Painting in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,” December 8, 1973-June 29, 1986. See Marilyn Fu and Shen Fu, “Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in New York, Princeton, and Washington, D.C.” [exhibition catalogue], (New York: Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1973), p. 206, cat. no. XXVIII. See also Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Gift Inventory sheet, cat. no. XXVIII, copy in object file.

  See also the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Gift Inventory sheet for this object, copy in object file.

  [2] See note 1.

  Dr. Arthur M. Sackler was a physician, medical publisher, pharmaceutical marketer, and collector of Asian art.

  [3] Pursuant to the agreement between Dr. Arthur M. Sackler and the Smithsonian Institution, dated July 28, 1982, legal title of the donated objects was transferred to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on September 11, 1987.

  Research updated January 31, 2023

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Rarities of Chinese Painting in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (December 8, 1973 to June 29, 1986)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1960s

• Name

  Sackler, Arthur M.

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Bananas, Scholar, Chinese Art, Rocks, Forgery, Modern period (1912 - present)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings