Signed, dated and located in Chinese with an artist seal on upper left. This work boasts a notable provenance, having been part of the collection of Li Ximu, a Thai-Chinese diplomat and Lin's fellow townsman. Li, who served as a consul in Chiang Mai and was acquainted with artists like Lin, Zao Wou-Ki, and Guan Liang, received numerous gifted works. Among them, Wisteria and Birds stands out as a rare masterpiece. Of Lin's fewer than thirty wisteria-themed paintings, only five from the 1940s are dated, with this being one of the largest. Notably, in the same year, Lin gifted a similar work, Whispering Swallows, to Wu Guanzhong and his wife as a wedding present, highlighting his affection for the theme.