Swift Bull from the Ten Swift Bulls
late 1200s-early 1300s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Swift Bull from the Ten Swift Bulls, late 1200s-early 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper; overall: 27.1 x 31.9 cm (10 11/16 x 12 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1952.286 This work was once part of a handscroll depicting ten bulls in various postures. The whereabouts of nine of the ten bulls are known, and all have been remounted as hanging scrolls. The original scroll likely celebrated prized creatures used by aristocrats to pull their conveyances. We know the original scroll had ten bulls because a copy of the complete scroll exists.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 27.1 x 31.9 cm (10 11/16 x 12 9/16 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1952.286
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Decorative Style, Tea Taste in Japanese Art, Juxtapositions, Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection, 120th Anniversary Exhibition: Masterpieces in the Tokyo National Museum, Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Tea taste in Japanese art</em>. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1963)., <em>Masterpieces of Japanese Art</em>. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas (October 4-November 30, 1969), <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11-July 13, 2004).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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