Scroll painting: Lotus flowers
| Accession Nr.: | 59.87.1 |
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| Type: | woodblock print; hanging scroll |
| Date of production: |
1950s
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| Materials/Techniques: | paper, woodblock printing, hand coloured, mounted as hanging scroll |
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| Dimensions: | height: 131 cm width: 42 cm |
A pair of ducks swimming under lotus flowers. With Chinese writing in the upper right corner.
Tứ bình is a 16th-century Vietnamese folk painting form that arranges four images with a common theme into a single series. Made in the Hàng Trống workshop in Hanoi, these pictures were usually made for the Tết, or Vietnamese New Year, similar to Đông Hồ prints, and were very popular among the people. The themes of the quartets all revolve around different states of things and change, such as the ages, four female musicians with different instruments, four important careers of the human or the four seasons.
Tứ bình is a 16th-century Vietnamese folk painting form that arranges four images with a common theme into a single series. Made in the Hàng Trống workshop in Hanoi, these pictures were usually made for the Tết, or Vietnamese New Year, similar to Đông Hồ prints, and were very popular among the people. The themes of the quartets all revolve around different states of things and change, such as the ages, four female musicians with different instruments, four important careers of the human or the four seasons.