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| Keywords: Auspicious Cranes.jpg Artwork creator Zhao Ji 瑞鶴 Auspicious Cranes 1112 handscroll <br /> ink color silk museum Liaoning Provincial Museum it is written that a flock of cranes hovered around and perched on one of the palace buildings To commemorate this auspicious omen Huizong composed a poem for the event This image appears on page 151 of Patricia Ebrey's Cambridge Illustrated History of China Also see R M Barnhart's Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting page 123 www epochtimes com/b5/5/8/17/n1021150 htm PD-old-100 100px Architecture in art 12th-century paintings Cranes in art Paintings of the Song Dynasty Zhao Ji Liaoning Provincial Museum | ||||
