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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This fan is a landscape painting, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Yuan painter’s…
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The album leaf 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.
Song Dynasty Liu Yin’s drunken return single page Read More »
This album is a landscape painting, the Chinese picture made to be unrolled or unpinned a section at a time rather than seen all at once. the Jin painter’s…
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This box is cloisonné enamel, the craft where metal is bent, filled with glass and fired until colour sits flush in a wired cell. the Imperial workshop mad…
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The object shows cloisonné enamel at its most confident. Wire first, then enamel, then fire, repeated until the surface is calm and the gilding catches the…
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This censer is cloisonné enamel, the craft where metal is bent, filled with glass and fired until colour sits flush in a wired cell. the Imperial workshop…
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The basin shows cloisonné enamel at its most confident. Wire first, then enamel, then fire, repeated until the surface is calm and the gilding catches the…
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This vase is cloisonné enamel, the craft where metal is bent, filled with glass and fired until colour sits flush in a wired cell. the Imperial workshop ma…
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The zun shows cloisonné enamel at its most confident. Wire first, then enamel, then fire, repeated until the surface is calm and the gilding catches the li…
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