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).

Dragon boats race during the tuan-yang festival on the 5th day of the month. Flags and pennants flap and tremble as drums beat a rhythm for the banks of oars plying the water. Mansions line the water on either side, their occupants gazing from the verandahs. In the gardens mallow and pomegranate trees are in bloom, and the banks are green with rushes.