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• Provenance
  Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525–1590], Jiaxing, China

  The Qianlong Emperor, reigned 1736–95, Beijing, China

  C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY

  ? before 1980–1997

  Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

  1997–

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
• Citations
  Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 155-156, cat. no. 133

  Annual Report 1997. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1998. Mentioned: p. 44

  Smith, Judith G., and Wen Fong. Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting. New York: Dept. of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 252, fig. 27 and p. 252, fig. 28

  Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 310, no. 27

  Ji'nan, Yin. " Politics or Entertainment? Examining Jiangxi Scholar Officials and Zhejiang Painters through the Lens of the Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden." In Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu Ping Luk., eds., p. 102-103. London: The British Museum, 2016. Reproduced: pp. 102-103
• Exhibition History
  The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 3, 1999-January 9, 2000).

  Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).
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