Palace Ladies
1644–1911
- Medium
- handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 36.2 × 454.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-115456
This handscroll illustrates the pursuits of court ladies in a palace precinct on a spring day. Women, young girls, and their maids amuse themselves by sitting on a swing, playing games, watering and admiring peonies, performing music together, playing the qin (zither), feeding a parrot on the balustrade and fish in the water, or catching butterflies. The life of elite women was mostly restricted to the so-called inner quarters, meaning the garden and inner courts of the house. This painting idealizes the world of young palace girls that in fact was often filled with boredom and waiting for a …
Provenance
Theodore Kahn, 1954.369
Registry history
- 1644–1911 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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