A collection of sages from Yushan
This album is a ink, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial painter’s hand that…
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Zhu Da Song Deer Picture Scroll
The hanging scroll is ink, and the medium decides the pace. Ink and colour on silk or paper ask to be read slowly, the eye led rather than struck.
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Wang Hui’s thick fan page of mountains and rivers
This album leaf is a ink, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial painter’s hand…
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Xu Fangping’s Moonlight Picture Album Page
This album leaf is a ink, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Imperial painter’s hand…
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Wu Lilintang Poems and Pictures Fan
The fan is ink, and the medium decides the pace. Ink and colour on silk or paper ask to be read slowly, the eye led rather than struck.
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Jasper animal face pattern square statue
The zun is a study in patience. Dark green (bian) jade holds a polish no metal keeps, and the Imperial workshop used that slow shine to signal rank and res…
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Jasper picking picture Shanzi
This mountain-shaped carving is cut from dark green (bian) jade, the stone the Chinese court valued above every other because it could be worked but never…
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Big Jade with Kui Pattern
This bi disc is cut from jade, the stone the Chinese court valued above every other because it could be worked but never rushed. Jade does not bend; the ca…
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White jade spit bowl with Kui dragon pattern
The object is a study in patience. White jade holds a polish no metal keeps, and the Imperial workshop used that slow shine to signal rank and restraint at…
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Lady Tongyin Yushan
The object is a study in patience. Jade holds a polish no metal keeps, and the Imperial workshop used that slow shine to signal rank and restraint at once.
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