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What looks natural may be a landscape garden on a grand scale--with a palace-like structure in the distance and an elaborate pavilion on the shore, where one can listen to music surrounded by trees and giant ornamental rocks. Nothing is known about the person who signed this delicately painted landscape.

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Document identity
localId
9431
label
Lakeside Pavilion
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
pageCount
4
Source metadata
id
9431
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Lakeside Pavilion
description
What looks natural may be a landscape garden on a grand scale--with a palace-like structure in the distance and an elaborate pavilion on the shore, where one can listen to music surrounded by trees and giant ornamental rocks. Nothing is known about the person who signed this delicately painted landscape.
provenance
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 140]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
17th century (Ming or Qing)
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
kakemono
scroll paintings
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4
pageCount
4
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
81.9
height
46
dimensionsRaw
H: 32 1/4 x W: 18 1/8 in. (81.9 x 46 cm)
Source extras
cul
Chinese
inscriptions
[Inscription] 暝色浮煙迷左掖碧雲將雨近西清; [Seal] At top
dynasty
Ming [Ming]-Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty
med
ink on silk mounted on paper
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3586
collection_ids
CHN
exhibition_ids
none
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photo
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photo
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photo
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photo
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