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Birds on an Autumn Inlet
c. 1200
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22.4 x 24 cm (8 13/16 x 9 7/16 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
The pair of ducks displays plumage dimorphism with the male more ornamented or brightly colored than the female.