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The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manua} 芥子園畫傳

Wang Gai 王槩

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The book is open to two facing pages with a drawing of a flowering branch. The drawing depicts a dark brown branch extending from the bottom-left corner towards the right across both pages. The branch has green oval-shaped leaves and clusters of pink flowers with green leaves. The flowers on the left page are red and pink with yellow centers. The flowers on the right page are pink with a red center. There are small red insects flying around the flowers. The pages are off-white and have a thin black border around the drawing. There are several lines of Chinese characters in black ink on the top left page, accompanied by a red seal. The background of the image is gray.

Artwork Details

Date
ca. 1748
Medium
Set of two woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 400 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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