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Wong #94. One Album containing eight circular,fan-shaped Tapestries (Ko-ssu), by an Unknown Artist. Sung. Chinese.
[[stamp]] SMITHSONIAN. [[/stamp]] 38
Woven in silk, in colors and gold thread. The first four ko-ssu's are quite similar in color and subject, all of them woven in silk of tobacco brown. In the foreground of each of these four specimens, a curving bank is introduced, on which blue rocks and flowering plants of variegated colors appear, many of the leaves outlined in gold. The first two specimens show also, more delicately tinted plum blossoms in upper part of picture. The fifth specimen is woven in silk of mahogany tone, stained, and pieced vertically through the center; the subject is similar to the preceding four, as are also the subjects of No. 6 and No. 7, which are olive brown in tone. The eighth is woven in lighter colored silk, and depicts a sage seated before a table, his attendant at the right, standing on a rock near two large wine jars and a pine tree. Silk piece at bottom.
Over cover of album missing.
Diameters vary from 7 1/8" to 3/4"

Purchased from K.T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York, Special Voucher #31 January, 1918,       
350.00

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