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In the Pot There is a Separate Heaven


壺中別有天
Mokuan Shôtô (Muan Xingtao) (Chinese, 1611–1684)
Japanese
Edo period
17th century

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 132.4 x 36.2 cm (52 1/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto
Accession Number2014.1527
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCalligraphy

Signed Huangbo Muan shu
Marks Linji Zhengzong (oval, relief seal); Muan Zhi yin (square intaglio seal)
ProvenanceBy 1981, Johnstone-Fong, Inc., Philadelphia [see note]; March 20, 1982, sold by Johnstone-Fong to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA; 2014, gift of Sylvan Barnet and the estate of William Burto to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)

NOTE: Illustrated in an advertisement for Johnstone-Fogg, Oriental Art, n.s., vol. 27, no. 4 (Winter 1981/1982), p. 381.