清 刺繡行書竹聯|Calligraphy Couplet
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18th century · Silk embroidery on bamboo · Asian Art
Rare spotted bamboo serves as the background for a poetic couplet embroidered in blue silk threads wrapped around bamboo slats. The poem reads: The green paulownias are as clear as a spotless reputation, The heavenly dew as lustrous as literary pearls.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Silk embroidery on bamboo
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2004
