Screen

16841C

From: China | Guangzhou

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 16841C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China | Guangzhou
Period 19th Century
Date Made ca. 1893
Section Asian
Materials Bamboo | Paint
Inscription Language Chinese Language
Description

Chinese bamboo screen with four registers. The top register contains a woman sitting and about to remove a shoe by a table with a vase holding a flower. The image is surrounded by a floral border. Below that there are ten stylized Chinese characters with a border of bats, fish, flowers, and fruit. Below that is a butterfly surrounded by fruits and flowers. The bottom register contains a vase with a flower coming out of it and an animal looking up at it surrounded by a floral border. It is one of three screens.

Height 213.36 cm
Width 65 cm
Credit Line Purchased from / at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

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