Painting, watercolors on brown silk of flowers, fish in fishpond, butterfly and other insects.
Donor:
Gladys "Gay" Womack and Robert Womack
Collection place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Watercolors (paintings)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1983
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 126.5 centimeters and width 53.5 centimeters
Comment:
The painting was removed from its frame to be stored flat. The frame and glass were retained in the same storage cabinet. Used as padding in the back of the frame are pages from a Shanghai newspaper - "The Sin Wan Pao" from Sunday, Nov. 6, 1932. J. Williams 8/2013