Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk

Title: Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk
Identifier: Painting, Chinese
Creator: Attributed to Song Huizong, Emperor of China, 1082-1135
Date: Northern Song dynasty early 12th century
Medium: handscrolls; Chinese silk; Chinese ink; color (pigment)
Subject: women
Type: Painting
Format: Image: 37.1 x 145 cm (14 5/8 x 57 1/16 in.); Overall: 37.7 x 466 cm (14 13/16 x 183 7/16 in.)
Language: Chinese (traditional) (language)
Rights Holder: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Department of Chinese and Japanese Art
Contributor: Special Chinese and Japanese Fund
Provenance: 12th century, Emperor Huizong (b. 1082 - d. 1135), Song Dynasty; 1126, upon the defeat of the Northern Song Dynasty by the Jurchens, taken with the art collections to Manchuria; passed to Emperor Zhangzong (b. 1168 - d. 1208), Jin Dynasty. By 1697, Gao Shiqi (b. 1645 - d. 1704), Qing Dynasty. First half of the 19th century, Jin Futing, Shanghai. 1898, with Luo Wenbin (?). May, 1912, sold in Beijing, probably by Wanyan Jingxian (d. by 1928), to Okakura Kakuzo (b. 1862 - d. 1913) for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 5,1912)