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AT-00010178Mt. Dong (Grotto Mountain)
by Song Xu
Also known as: Eighteen Views of Wuxing: Grotto Mountain; Eighteen Views of Wuxing: Mt. Dong 洞山; Eighteen Views of Wuxing: Mt. Dong (Grotto Mountain)
About the Artwork
This album of landscape paintings depicts the famous scenic areas located in and around the city of Wuxing in southeastern China. These places were all known for their natural beauty, but in addition, a number were distinguished by their links to eminent historical figures and events. The artist, Song Xu, was not a native of Wuxing, but must have visited it when he accepted the commission, for he carefully depicted all eighteen views and wrote comments on each of them. Song's gazetteer-like notation on this leaf reads: Grotto Mountain: Five li northwest of Hexi, there are two streams converging; Hexi (literally converging streams) is derived from this. The cave can hold a hundred people.
Provenance
?–1998: (Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1998–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606)
- Date
- c. 1588
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 1998.78.5
More by Song Xu in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00010178
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