The word “handscroll” in Chinese consists of the characters “hand” and “scroll,” which best describe the manner of viewing this structure. The handscroll is made up of a long, horizontal sheet of ...
A rare 18th-century scroll has become one of the most expensive Chinese artworks ever to sell at auction. The 61-foot-long artwork fetched 414 million yuan (almost $65 million) when it went under the ...
A 700-year old hand scroll originally produced by calligrapher Rao Jie caused a frenzy among auction bidders last week in Hong Kong. (all images courtesy Sotheby's) After a heated bidding battle that ...
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Learn how conservators at the National Museum of Asian Art preserved this fragile Japanese hand scroll “Miraculous Interventions of Jizo Bosatsu.” Matthew Clarke The fragile Japanese narrative ...
17th-Century Japanese Handscroll Fragments Appraisal: 17th-Century Japanese Handscroll Fragments Share Transcript ...
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