hanging scroll; painting BM-1881-1210-0.84-85

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:16thC
Materials:silk
Technique:painted
Subjects:reading/writing
Dimensions:Height: 39.25 inches Width: 11.50 inches

Description:
Pair of hanging scrolls. One is figure reading n the woods; the other, an attendant carrying a book into the woods. Painted in ink and colours on silk. With accompanying certificate by Kano Isen’in Naganobu.
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Comments:’84 and 85. Beautiful painting, an admirable and rare example of the artist.”子昭 Tzŭ-chao. Yüan. ie Shēng Mou’ ‘Certificate by Kano I sen in (Naganobu)’ (unattributed annotations in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)