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Gathering Water Chestnuts

Unidentified artist

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fan-shaped artwork with a semi-circular top edge and pleated lines radiating from the bottom edge. The artwork depicts a landscape scene. A stone wall runs horizontally across the center. A tree with bare branches stands in the foreground to the right of the wall. A hill with trees rises in the background. A smaller hill or mound is to the left. A body of water is visible in the foreground below the wall. The artwork features a color palette of black, green, and red ink on a beige background. Chinese characters are written in black and red ink on the left side.

Artwork details

Date:
18th century or later, spurious date of 1706
Medium:
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
600 × 299 px
Museum record:
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