hanging scroll; painting BM-1881-1210-0.218

Period:Unknown Production date:1780-1814
Materials:silk
Technique:painted
Subjects:deity war
Dimensions:Height: 166 centimetres (mount) Height: 111.30 centimetres Width: 92 centimetres (mount) Width: 74.50 centimetres

Description:
Painting, hanging scroll. Guan Yu, the Chinese god of war, seated with halberd and books on a table. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.
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Comments:’218. 桂意’ (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)