Women and children in a garden Unidentified artist Women and children gather in an elegant garden setting surrounded by a lotus pond in full blossom. The opening scene centers on a pair of women playing the board game weiqi in a waterside pavilion. Toward the end of the scroll, a second vignette shows a woman readying to play a zither prepared by her attendant. Weiqi and music are two of the “four perfections,” a set of abilities considered de rigeur for the scholarly elite. Presumably, the scroll once contained vignettes featuring the other two—calligraphy and painting—that have been W
Women and children in a garden Unidentified artist Women and children gather in an elegant garden setting surrounded by a lotus pond in full blossom. The opening scene centers on a pair of women playing the board game weiqi in a waterside pavilion. Toward the end of the scroll, a second vignette shows a woman readying to play a zither prepared by her attendant. Weiqi and music are two of the “four perfections,” a set of abilities considered de rigeur for the scholarly elite. Presumably, the scroll once contained vignettes featuring the other two—calligraphy and painting—that have been Women and children in a garden. Unidentified artist , 16th or 17th century. China. Handscroll; ink and color on silk. Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Paintings
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