Night-Shining White
Attributed to Han Gan (active ca. 742–56)
Handscroll; ink on paper; 12 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (30.8 x 34 cm)
Ex coll.: Sir Percival David
Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.78)
 

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