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Album of ten landscapes

Artist Tu Yüan-li (Chinese)
CultureChinese
DateMing period (1368-1644)
DimensionsOverall: 13 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 7/8 in. (34.6 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm)
Classification(s)
  • EASTERN
Credit LineSelection from the Peterson Collection, Gift of William Bingham II
Object number41.15.41
DescriptionHeavy paper folios support each of the ten paintings and a calligraphic text with seals of equal size which face each other across the fold. Each painting is on extremely fragile silk mounted to a silk sheet which is itself mounted to heavier silk which is attached to the paper folio. The album has two folios with gold flecked paper, and wood front and back boards.
Inscribedcalligraphy signed by artist.
On View
Not on view
Album of twelve landscapes with calligraphy
After Chou Liang-Kung
19th century
Oinochoë
Attributed to the Hoppin Painter
375 BC -350 BC
1971-4
Chung-Ray Fong
ca. 1971
Head from a Statuette of Osiris
Egyptian, anonymous
Third Intermediate Period (c. 752 BC - 656 BC), Dynasty 25