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Handscroll container and ink sticks

Handscroll container and ink sticks
1875

Medium
watercolour and brush and ink on paper, woodblock, ink sticks

Measurements
(a) 22.9 × 49.8 cm (image and sheet) 22.9 × 79.8 cm (mount)
(b) 30.9 × 33.6 cm (image and sheet) (text sheet)
(c) 1.1 × 1.1 × 14.7 cm (ink stick)
(d) 0.7 × 2.0 × 14.7 cm (ink stick)
(e) 0.9 × 2.3 × 14.3 cm (ink stick)
(f) 0.9 × 3.4 × 11.2 cm (ink stick)
(g) 0.8 × 1.9 × 11.2 cm (ink stick)
(h) 0.8 × 3.9 × 6.6 cm (ink stick)
(i) 0.9 × 1.9 × 6.4 cm (ink stick)
(j) 0.7 × 3.5 × 6.0 cm (ink stick)
(k) 0.5 × 1.8 × 6.0 cm (ink stick)
(l) 0.7 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm (ink stick)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Kaiser Bequest, 2001

Gallery location
Asian Art - Chinese Gallery
Level 1, NGV International

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Place/s of Execution
China

Inscription
(b) printed in ink (in Chinese characters): (text stating that these objects were made in the first year of the reign of Guangxu (1875-1908) of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911))

Accession Number
2001.144.a-l

Department
Asian Art

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