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Source Description
This painting is intended to suggest an earlier ideal time: the landscape is painted in the "blue-and-green" style that dates back to the Tang [T'ang] Dynasty (7th-10th centuries), and the harp the lady plays is an ancient instrument. Beside the man lies a zither, the noble instrument of the leisured scholar. Qiu Ying's [Ch'iu Ying] original painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Document identity
localId
28135
label
Music-Making in a Pavilion
core
obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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3
Source metadata
id
28135
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Music-Making in a Pavilion
description
This painting is intended to suggest an earlier ideal time: the landscape is painted in the "blue-and-green" style that dates back to the Tang [T'ang] Dynasty (7th-10th centuries), and the harp the lady plays is an ancient instrument. Beside the man lies a zither, the noble instrument of the leisured scholar. Qiu Ying's [Ch'iu Ying] original painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
provenance
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
16th century (Ming)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
kakemono
scroll paintings
imageCount
3
pageCount
3
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
232.4
height
50.2
dimensionsRaw
Overall L: 91 1/2 × W: 19 3/4 in. (232.41 × 50.17 cm); Painting L: 31 5/8 x W: 11 1/4 in. (80.3 x 28.6 cm)
Source extras
cul
Chinese
inscriptions
[Signature] Qiu shi zhi; [Translation] Made by the Qiu family; [Seal] Duling neishi
dynasty
Ming (?)
med
ink and color on silk
creator_ids
3848
34041
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CHN
exhibition_ids
3424
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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photo
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photo
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