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Sailboat in rainstorm


風雨行舟圖 團扇 (夏珪)
Xia Gui (Chinese, active about 1195 – 1230)
Chinese
Southern Song dynasty
about 1189–94

Medium/Technique Ink and color on silk
Dimensions Overall: 23.9 x 25.1cm (9 7/16 x 9 7/8in.)
Framed: 47.9 × 47.9 × 3.2 cm (18 7/8 × 18 7/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund
Accession Number12.891
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Provenance14th century, Mu Lin (b. 1345 - d. 1392), Prince of Ch'ien-ning. Juan 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.