Two Cranes and Plum Branch

Kano Tansetsu (Japanese, 1655–1714)

latter half of the 17th- first half of the 18th centuries

Medium/TechniqueHanging scroll; ink and color on silk

DimensionsImage: 84.7 x 33.7 cm (33 3/8 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit LineFenollosa-Weld Collection

Accession number11.4328

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Asia

ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum

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