17th-18th century
H. 16.5 x W. 16.3 cm (6 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)
Twenty manuscript books; ink on paper, with cover paintings in gold pigment on indigo-dyed paper
17th centuryJapaneseHandscroll; ink on mica-coated paper
16th-17th centuryJapaneseInk, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
19th centuryPersianHandscroll; ink on mica-coated paper with silver and light color
17th centuryJapaneseInk on paper
Chinese13th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseHandscroll; ink on paper with gold and silver flakes and cut-gold guidelines
12th centuryJapanese48th of a set of 54 thread-bound books; ink on paper
17th-18th centuryJapaneseFirst of three handscrolls; ink on paper; punctuation: light red dots; reciting: dark red
10th-12th centuryJapaneseInk on paper
13th centuryJapaneseOne of a pair of hanging scrolls now mounted as the fifth and sixth panels of a ten-panel folding screen; ink on yellow-tinted paper decorated with auspicious emblems and scholar's accoutrements (censer set, brushpot, vases with flowering branches, scholar's rocks on wooden stands, etc.) amidst scrolling clouds, the decorations all painted in ink; with signature of the artist reading "Wi-ch'ang"; with three seals of the artist reading "O Se Ch'ang In", "Wi Ch'ang" and "Wi Chi Chae P'il"
19th-20th centuryKoreanHandscroll; ink on paper
Chinese