Painters of the Ch'ing Court
Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Framed 18"x24"                                                                             ( Original is Color and Ink on Silk; size: 69"x37" , Wallscroll )

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).

A great fall of snow has covered the mountains ; ice chokes the rivers. People stand around idly, gather round a stove, watch the crowds of deer or go sleding on the ice. Children play at football, shuttlecock and building snow lions.

The scene completes the pageant of the seasons.