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Artist
Sakurai Seppo (1753 – 1824, Japanese)
Date
1870 – 1890
Medium
wood; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.08.0261 a,b
Description
Palmate, flat fans with carved, black gold lacquer handles with purple tassels. (a) lady in a house reading, lady is quilted to create relief. Lamp, books and table and teapot are appliqued cut outs;. Calligraphy and chop mark on right. Obverse of fan is trellis and blossoms (b) two ladies with …
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Artist
Sakurai Seppo (1753 – 1824, Japanese)
Title
fan
Date
1870 – 1890
Medium
wood; fibre
Dimensions
0.7 x 23.0 x 35.8 cm
Description
Palmate, flat fans with carved, black gold lacquer handles with purple tassels. (a) lady in a house reading, lady is quilted to create relief. Lamp, books and table and teapot are appliqued cut outs;. Calligraphy and chop mark on right. Obverse of fan is trellis and blossoms (b) two ladies with insect cage, hunting in reeds. Ladies and cage quilted to create relief. Calligraphy and chop mark on right, obverse plain. Both fans are fabric over bamboo or reed with painted and appliqued designs.
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.08.0261 a,b
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Date
1993
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
ArP.05.09
Description
A figure dressed in a black hat, black blouse, printed black pants, red socks, black shoes is at centre top, walking on grey crumbling blocks. Below and in the foreground is a range of peaked mountains, dark colours of blue, purple and some green with some snow cover on centre mountains. A row o…
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Artist
Patricia Askren (1951 – , American)
Title
Trusting
Date
1993
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
43.2 x 30.5 cm
Description
A figure dressed in a black hat, black blouse, printed black pants, red socks, black shoes is at centre top, walking on grey crumbling blocks. Below and in the foreground is a range of peaked mountains, dark colours of blue, purple and some green with some snow cover on centre mountains. A row of black trees lines a lake in the foreground, splashes of colour reflect in the lake. The sky has red, purple tones fading to white at the top.
Subject
landscape
mountains
mythological
figure
Credit
Gift of Patricia Askren, Lakonias, Greece, 1993
Catalogue Number
ArP.05.09
Images
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