Coromandel Screen

Kangxi period, 1690

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    carved and painted lacquer on wood

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (each of 12 panels): 266.7 x 49.9 cm (105 x 19 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1970.20.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; her estate; gift 1970 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 277-283, color repro.

Inscriptions

(see systematic catalogue entry [Little et al. 1998, 282-283] for full discussion and summary translation of the inscription on the back of the screen)

Wikidata ID

Q62286803

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