hanging scroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.1275
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Quails and millet. Ink and colour on paper. Sealed.
- Production date
- 1650-1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 97.50 centimetres
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Width: 37.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- '1275. Seal 桃源子 Tōgenshi.' (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.1275
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.554 (Japanese Painting Number)
