AT-00000996
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Melting the Gold and Predicting the Future
Inscriptions
Inscription across top, dated 1901 by Guiyen, Yu Ju Red collection seal lower right.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, To Predict the Future: Auspicious Omens in Premodern Chinese Paintings, Dec. 8, 2018 - March 24, 2019
Publications
Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: Third Series, Vol. 1 American and Canadian Collections 1, Research Field of Art, East Asian Department, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, by University of Tokyo Press, 2013; page I-29, No. A 3–105.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Yu Guiyan 郁桂岩 (Chinese, 1859-1930?)
- Date
- Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1901
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 102.9 × 39.4 cm (40 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair
- Accession no.
- 1943.123
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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