drawing
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.97.JA
- Description
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Painting. Buddhist wall decorations. Clouds and lotus petals. Ink, colour and gold leaf on paper.
- Production date
- 1840s-1860s
- Dimensions
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Height: 73.30 centimetres
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Width: 133.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In set with 1881,1210,0.91-96
In set with 1881,1210,0.98-110
'Nos 91-94, 106 & 110 are probably by Kano Chikanobu, the rest of the series by unknown hand.' (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
- 1881,1210,0.97.JA
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.3533 (Japanese Painting Number)