painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.79.JA
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll, pair with Jap.Ptg.34. Six of the 12 deva kings. Ink and colour on silk.
- Production date
- 14thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 107.70 centimetres
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Width: 63.70 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 47.90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 'Painted by Tosa Taka-mitsu. Certificate by Kohitsu Rionin. Fourteenth century.' (unattributed annotations 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
- 1881,1210,0.79.JA
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.33 (Japanese Painting Number)
