Beauties

Chinese Collection

Accession Nr.:	63.59.1
Type:	painting; costumes
Artist/Maker:	Zhang Danzhuang (?)
Date of production:	End of the 18th century Qing dynasty
Place of production:	China

Marks:	Name of „Danzhuang” and two red seals
Materials:	silk
Techniques:	ink
Dimensions:	width: 22.3 cm hoszúság: 30.2 cm

The term album painting refers to the East Asian genre of small sized, un-mounted pictures. Thematic groups of paintings are arranged in series and collected bound together in volumes or folded leaflets. Only one female figure is seen in the third album sheet. She holds a flower in her right hand and a porcelain bowl full of petals in her left. See the other sheets: inv. nos.: 63.57.1 and 63.58.1.

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