Chinese Scroll
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- silk; wood; ink
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0312
- Description
- A vertical scroll made of green silk with brown cotton(?) fabric at top and bottom (more at top), gold damask bands of fabric, and beige silk middle section upon which a scene is painted in black ink. The scene shows a house at left with smoke coming from the roof. Behind the house are two trees. t…
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- Title
- Chinese Scroll
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- silk; wood; ink
- Dimensions
- 145.5 x 37.0 cm
- Description
- A vertical scroll made of green silk with brown cotton(?) fabric at top and bottom (more at top), gold damask bands of fabric, and beige silk middle section upon which a scene is painted in black ink. The scene shows a house at left with smoke coming from the roof. Behind the house are two trees. the ground around the house is white and in the lower left there is a steep waterfall. The sky is grey. Chinese characters are stamped in red and black at the bottom right side. “Hara Dsaishu artist to the court, Kioto 30 year old painter” is written on the reverse at the bottom of the scroll
- Subject
- scroll
- ink
- Hara School
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0312
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