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Small ensemble

Watercolour
1870-1890 (made)
Place of origin

Painting, rectangular in shape, depicting a scene. Inside a room, a series of figures engaged in various activites. In the foreground, in the centre, a gold table and chair set. Five lanterns hand from the ceiling. The colours are bright and solid, largely red, blue, green and gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Small ensemble (generic title)
  • 清 佚名 中華禮俗組畫:合樂 (published title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolours on silk
Brief description
Watercolour, 'small ensemble', twenty-two of thirty five, watercolours on silk, Ningbo, China, 1870-1890
Physical description
Painting, rectangular in shape, depicting a scene. Inside a room, a series of figures engaged in various activites. In the foreground, in the centre, a gold table and chair set. Five lanterns hand from the ceiling. The colours are bright and solid, largely red, blue, green and gold.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40cm
  • Width: 65cm
Object history
Originally an album containing thirty five paintings of various processions including funerals, marriages, offical reviews and inside the law courts. The full series is numbered D.2-1898 to D.36-1898.
Purchased from Parsons & Sons, accessioned in 1898. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
D.23-1898

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Record createdDecember 15, 1999
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