Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 23
1200s
- Medium
- Album; ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Painting: 34.1 x 38.4 cm (13 7/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange)
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
These six Daoist deities all carry plaques inscribed with their names. This group of six is the first set of half-officers, ranging from the first to the sixth month of the cycle. Album leaf 24 continues the series with the officers for the seventh through the twelfth months.
