# Autumn foliage and birds

- By: Formerly attributed to Cui Bai (active mid- to late 11th century)
- Date: 14th-15th century
- Medium: Ink and color on silk
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 82.2 × 49.8 cm (32 3/8 × 19 5/8 in)
- Culture: Chinese
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1919.154/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/af311b1c5d02d0d1b70abb89c3614b3d.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A magpie is perched atop a tree to which a few sparse autumn leaves still cling. Two songbirds sit on the thorns below. The composition of this unsigned painting is based on Song dynasty (906-1279) conventions, but on the whole it is too open and loosely organized to be an exact copy. The relatively tight, descriptive brushwork dates stylistically to the Yuan (1279-1368) or early Ming dynasty (1368-1644).