painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.2353
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Three white eyes (mejiro) in a persimmon tree. Ink and colours on silk. Signed and sealed. Ivory jikusaki.
- Production date
- 1850-1880
- Dimensions
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Height: 193 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 105.50 centimetres
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Width: 59.30 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 47 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- '2353. Good example.' (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
- 1881,1210,0.2353
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.2659 (Japanese Painting Number)