painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 2014,3032.1
- Title
- Object: 西番貢獅圖 (Envoy with a Tribute Lion)
- Description
-
A foreign emissary with turban and beard with tribute lion to the Chinese court, ink and colours on silk.
- Production date
- 1400-1500
- Dimensions
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Height: 163.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 254.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 100 centimetres (iamge)
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Width: 108 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2019 Dec-June 2020, London, BM, G33, rotation 'Beyond the pass'
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- The painting was donated by Prof. Roderick Whitfield in honour of the former keeper of the department, Jan Stuart.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2014,3032.1
- Additional IDs
-
Asia painting number: Ch.Ptg.Add.802
