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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 21

Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 21

1200s
Location: not on view

Description

This leaf is part of an important album of 50 drawings encompassing three subjects: processions of Daoist deities to the celestial spheres, the Ten Kings of Hell, and Erlang’s Campaign to Rid Mount Guankou of Dangerous Beasts (soushan tu 搜山圖).

This leaf belongs to a group of drawings of deities of the Daoist pantheon that inspired Chinese Buddhist iconography in many instances. Here we see the personified Nine Brilliant Constellations (Jiu yao 九曜). From right to left in the upper row are the sun and moon followed by three other stars: Venus as a goddess, Mars, and Yuebei. Proceeding in the lower row from right to left are Luohou, the comet Jidu, Ziqu, Jupiter, Mercury depicted as a female, and Saturn.
  • Wang Hui 王翬 [1632–1717]
    Li Jiale 李嘉樂 (jinshi of 1863)
    Zhu Hang 朱沆 [active 19th century]
    1910-?
    Dr. F. R. (Fredrik Robert) Martin [1868–1933], Stockholm, Sweden, and Munich, Germany
    ?-1947
    Mrs. L. M. Morris [20th century], England
    1947
    (Sotheby's, London, sale, 25 March 1947, lot 118, sold to Stephen Junkunc III)
    1947-78
    István “Stephen" Junkunc III [1904-1978], by descent to his son Stephen Junkunc IV
    1978-2004
    (Stephen Junkunc IV [b. 1937], Miami, FL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2004-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Martin, F. R.. Zeichnungen nach Wu tao-tze aus der götter- und sagenwelt Chinas. München: F. Bruckmann a.g, 1913.
    Huang, Shih-shan Susan. Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. Reproduced: p. 288, Fig. 6.5
    Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 174-195
    Vilbar, Sinéad. "A Celestial Landing: The Seven Stars and the Nine Celestials Descending at Kasuga." Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 68-77. Reproduced: p. 69, fig. 2
  • Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-August 11, 2019).
  • {{cite web|title=Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 21|url=false|author=|year=1200s|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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