Palace ladies by a lotus pond
18th century
- Medium
- Ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 38.4 × 314.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-126134
Depicting a scene of women, children and servants (total of fifteen figures) engaged in various activities, including playing weiqi and playing musical instruments, both inside and outside a pavilion overlooking a lotus pond with a pair of mandarin ducks. In the middle there is one figure on each side of a fence covered with a flowering vine. To the left stand a woman and a servant (who holds a z…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 18th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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