This
set of twelve paintings depicts, with a spicing of imagination, activities
which typify each month of the lunar calendar. It bears no signatures but
is plainly a work of the Ch'ing dynasty academy. Judging from the style it
is a collaborative effort by painter T'ang Tai, Ting Kuan-p'eng and other
painters of the Ch'ien-lung court (1736-1796).
Peonies
and magnolia are in full bloom as a soft rain falls. As the rain falls,
everyone in the garden holds up an umbrella. Beyond the walls a group of
girls hurries back from mulberry picking, covering their heads with their
sleeves.
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