Garden estate

Unidentified artist
Fake signature of Liu Songnian Chinese

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A group of gentlemen ramble throughout a vast garden estate, enjoying waterside pavilions and the company of cranes. Many gardens in premodern China were small in scale, but painted representations of them can make them seem vast—a reflection of how their makers intended them to be experienced: as places where the spirit could run free. This handsome painting bears a fake signature of the twelfth-century painter Liu Songnian, but it was likely made in the seventeenth century to satisfy market demand for old paintings.

Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China

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Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Garden estate, Unidentified artist , 17th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China

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