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Child with his pets in a flower garden
Child with his pets in a flower garden

Child with his pets in a flower garden

Zhou Wenju (Chinese, about 900–975)
13th century
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on silk
DimensionsOverall: 37.3 × 36.3 cm (14 11/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Image: 24.5 × 25.7 cm (9 5/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit LineChinese and Japanese Special Fund
Accession number12.897
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceJuan Yuan (b. 1764 - d. 1849). By about 1900, Wanyan Jingxian (d. by 1928), Beijing [see note 1];1912, sold by Wanyan Jingxian to Okakura Kakuzo (b. 1862 - d. 1913) for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 5, 1912)

NOTES:
[1] According to a statement in his own painting catalogue, Wanyan Jingxian lost this object (part of an album, MFA accession nos. 12.889 - 12.901) during the Boxer Rebellion, but recovered it shortly thereafter.