Tsuba with Wu Daozi's Dragon Painting Coming to Life
This tsuba illustrates a story about the 8th-century Chinese painter Wu Daozi [Tao-tzu], who was said to have painted a picture of a dragon so realistic that it came to life. The tsuba shows the painter in the lower right surrounded by brushes and other tools. The dragon looms...
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5413
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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3
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.165_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.165_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.165_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg |
| imageCount | 3 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.165 |
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