Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk

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Title
Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk
Identifier
Painting, Chinese
Date
Northern Song dynasty early 12th century
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.)
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)
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