Period:Unknown Production date:17thC (late Ming/early Qing)
Materials:silk
Technique:painted
Subjects:mammal fruit
Dimensions:Height: 38.10 centimetres (album) Height: 25 centimetres (image) Width: 33.70 centimetres (album) Width: 26 centimetres (image)
Description:
Album leaf. Mice and rats have the same Chinese name and are not always differentiated. The rat is one of the Chinese zodiac animals and the lunar year beginning on 7 February 2008 is the Year of the Rat, the first in the 12-year cycle. Here mice are painted nibbling a melon, a fruit which is lucky because it has many seeds, symbolising many children. Painted in ink and colours on silk. Seal.
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![图片[1]-painting; album BM-1945-1101-0.67-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00239819_001.jpg)
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Materials:silk
Technique:painted
Subjects:mammal fruit
Dimensions:Height: 38.10 centimetres (album) Height: 25 centimetres (image) Width: 33.70 centimetres (album) Width: 26 centimetres (image)
Description:
Album leaf. Mice and rats have the same Chinese name and are not always differentiated. The rat is one of the Chinese zodiac animals and the lunar year beginning on 7 February 2008 is the Year of the Rat, the first in the 12-year cycle. Here mice are painted nibbling a melon, a fruit which is lucky because it has many seeds, symbolising many children. Painted in ink and colours on silk. Seal.
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