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).
In
a spacious hall connoisseurs are examining ancient objects and paintings.
In another room an old painter is working on someone's portrait. The
ladies in the apartments are engaged in recitals on musical instruments
and embroidery.
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