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Nine dragons

Chen Rong (Chinese, about 1200 – 1266)

dated 1244

Country of Origin, for CustomsChina

Medium/TechniqueInk and color on paper

DimensionsOverall: 46.8 x 1496.5 cm (18 7/16 x 589 3/16 in.)
Image: 46.2 x 958.4 cm (18 3/16 x 377 5/16 in.)

Credit LineFrancis Gardner Curtis Fund

Accession number17.1697

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ClassificationsPaintings

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Asia

Provenance17th century, Geng Zhaozhong (b. 1640 - d. 1686), Shandong, China. 18th century, Emperor Qianlong (b. 1711 - d. 1799), Qing Dynasty; to Emperor Jiaqing (b. 1760 - d. 1820), Qing Dynasty; probably given by one of the later Qing emperors to Yixin, Prince Gong (b. 1833 - d. 1898) [see note 1]. 1917, Yamanaka and Co., New York; sold by Yamanaka to the MFA for $25,000. (Accession Date: June 14, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] See Zhang Hongxing, "The Nineteenth-Century Provenance of the Admonitions Scroll: A Hypothesis," in Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll, ed. S. McCausland (London, 2003), p. 278.