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Description: | A hanging scroll depicting six maidens playing at the palace lake, in ink and colour on silk. The lake is enclosed by trees and hills to the fore- and backgrounds of the painting; there are a series of bridges and buildings around the edge of the lake. Two maidens are standing on a bridge to the foreground, two are standing in a lakeside pavillion and two are sitting on boats in the middle of the lake. There is a 12-character inscription in black ink and a seal in red at the top right hand corner of the painting. At the bottom right there is a seal in red and there are three more of varying size at the bottom left hand corner. The scroll is mounted on silk and has a wooden top bar to which a cord for hanging is attached. The bottom of the scroll has a round wooden pole to provide necessary weight for display and for rolling the scroll up for storage. | Subjects: | painting scroll paintings paintings visual works | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=214... | Go to resource |
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