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Anonymous
Monk Visiting a Chinese Officialdatable to 1250-1275

Not on view
Ink and color painting on silk or paper, fragment of a palatial interior seen from above, with two robed figures on a green-and-yellow grid-patterned platform framed by red railings and a checkerboard terrace below

Anonymous, Monk Visiting a Chinese Official, Kamakura period, 1185-1334, datable to 1250-1275, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wright Deaccession Fund and Far Eastern Art Council Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Anonymous
Title
Monk Visiting a Chinese Official
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
datable to 1250-1275
Period
Kamakura period (1185-1333)
Medium
Fragment of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 12 1/4 x 21 1/8 in. (31.1 x 53.7 cm)
Credit Line
Wright Deaccession Fund and Far Eastern Art Council Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.81.48
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art