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Asian Art
Public domain

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: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room
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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