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Asian Art
Scene from an unidentified Tale
ca. 1800
Ink, color, and gold leaf on paper
without mounting: 8 11/16 × 6 7/16 in. (22 × 16.3 cm)
Katharine Ordway Collection
1980.12.37b
Geography:
Japan
Status:
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
Alice Spalding Bowen (1890–1991), Oriental Art, Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii; Katharine Ordway (1899–1979) Collection, Weston, Conn.; bequest in 1980 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Lesley K. Baier, The Katharine Ordway Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983), 116, no. 103.
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