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Birds on a Peach Branch
1100s
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and light color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24.8 x 25.7 cm (9 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
An insect is drawn to the scent of the ripe peaches. Is the bird going to catch it?
