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Watercolour

1870-1890 (made)
Place of origin

Watercolour, rectangular in shape, depicting a scene.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Watercolours on silk
Brief description
Watercolour, thirty of thirty five, watercolours on silk, Ningbo, China, 1870-1890
Physical description
Watercolour, rectangular in shape, depicting a scene.
Dimensions
  • Height: 40cm
  • Length: 65cm
  • Height: 41cm
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.
Collection
Accession number
D.31-1898

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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