Painting Playing board games
Painting Playing board games
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The third picture from an album of Chinese paintings of the everyday lives of court ladies, showing two ladies playing a board game. The painting offers a glimpse of the interior of the buildings, which cleverly blend with the exterior gardens, with interesting transitions of different shapes – a crescent moon, a circle or a vase – from one room to another. The vase-shaped door, as seen on the left side of the painting, represented peace, as in Chinese, “vase” (ping 瓶) is a homonym of “peace” (ping 平). (NVS)
Place of manufacture: Canton (Guangdong 廣東 )
Material description: paper drevesa Tetrapanex
papyrifera (tongcao 通草), silk
Manufacturing technique: gouache, watercolour
Dimensions: height: 26 cm, length: 37 cm
Inscription: 長堤柳綠惹鶯穿. 芳苑花開拉蝶採. Zhang di liu lü ying chuan. Fang yuan hua kai la die cai. (A large green willow tree attracts songbirds flying through its branches. Fragrant flowers in the embrace of the garden attract colourful butterflies.)
No. of parts: the third of twelve paintings
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Last acquisition method: donation
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: The edges of the page are slightly torn.
History of exhibition: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana, 31. 8. 2006–3. 9. 2007 (exhibition Srečevanja s Kitajsko: 200 let slovenskih odkrivanj kitajske kulture [Encounters with China: 200 years of Slovenian discovery of Chinese culture])
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