Auspicious Sightings of Jade Terrace Immortals
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Auspicious Sightings of Jade Terrace Immortals
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Sheet
129 x 45 1/4 in. (327.66 x 115 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
2011.27.132
Acquisition Date:
1950
Geography:
Asia, China
Classification:
Fine and Visual Arts
Culture/Nationality:
Chinese
Collection:
Helen B. Chapin '15 Collection
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- Chinese - The cultures, styles, and periods characteristic of China. To specifically refer to the cultures of ancient Chine, use "Ancient Chinese."
- color - Refers to pigment in a medium, such as ink, water, or oil. A common example is in referring to the media of Asian art (e.g., "ink and color on paper").
- ink - A fluid medium used for drawings or tracings. An opaque, usually black, pigment is mixed with a vehicle such as water to produce a fluid which can be applied with a pen or brush. Through the end of the 19th century, ink was supplied dried in stick or block form which was ground and mixed with water as needed. At the beginning of this century prepared ink became popular.
- inscriptions - Words, texts, lettering, or symbols marked on a work, including texts, legends, documentation notes, or commemoration. For standardized symbols or notations on objects that convey official information, use "marks (symbols)."
- paintings - Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.
- scroll paintings - Refers to paintings having a long, narrow scroll format. Term is often used in the context of Chinese and Japanese paintings on either hanging scrolls (kakemono, if Japanese) or on handscrolls (emakimono, if Japanese). For written documents on long, rolled strips, see "scrolls (information artifacts)."
- silk - Textile made from silk fiber, which is a fiber derived from the cocoon of the silkworm moth.
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Bibliography List
The following Bibliography exist for this object:
- Marianne Hansen, ed. "Asian Scrolls and Books," Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 14 (Fall 2011): Cover, 7.
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