明 佚名 舊傳周昉 閑庭仕女圖 卷|Women and children in a garden
Unidentified artist
Date unknown · Handscroll; ink and color on silk · Asian Art
Women and children gather in an elegant garden setting surrounded by a lotus pond in full blossom. The opening scene centers on a pair of women playing the board game weiqi in a waterside pavilion. Toward the end of the scroll, a second vignette shows a woman readying to play a zither prepared by her attendant. Weiqi and music are two of the “four perfections,” a set of abilities considered de rigeur for the scholarly elite. Presumably, the scroll once contained vignettes featuring the other two—calligraphy and painting—that have been lost.
- Artist
- Unidentified artist
- Date
- Date unknown
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
