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Bamboo Grove

Unsigned 作者不明

Color painting formed from a pair of screens arranged horizontally side-by-side, each with six, narrow vertical panels, of bamboo plants, with tall bamboo trunks on either side, around a dark blue body of water in the center surrounded by leafy bamboo plants. The background is mostly solid gold, with gold clouds in the upper left. A thin rectangular border of golden textile surrounds each screen on all sides. — Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper; 72 × 12 ft 6 in (each). Public Domain

Artist
Unsigned

Subject Area
Plants

Artistic Techniques
Gold, Gold Leaf

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