元/明 佚名 古木竹禽圖 團扇|Old Tree, Bamboo, and Birds
Unidentified artist
late 14th–early 15th century · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk · Asian Art
Unsuspecting swallows weave among the bamboo while a preying hawk eyes them from the branch of an old tree. The unsentimental lesson to be learned from nature was that the strong prey upon the weak. The petty bureaucrat who abuses his authority is in turn the victim of the more powerful official.
- Artist
- Unidentified artist
- Date
- late 14th–early 15th century
- Medium
- Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947
