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Title: Two Designs for Jewelry
Artist: Étienne Delaune
Physical Description: Two vertical designs dominate the drawing. Natural forms such as vines and other vegetal forms create designs that are symmetrical and organized around a central vertical axis.
Artist Life Dates: 1518/9-1583
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: mid 16th century
Accession Number: 1963/2.6A
Medium and Support: graphite, pen and brown ink with yellow watercolor, mounted
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Title: Summer Retreat
Artist: Xie Shichen (Hsieh Shih-ch'en)
Physical Description: This is a very dense landscape painting. There are waterfalls, clouds, trees and cliffs present in the painting. The colors consist of muted greens and browns. Towards the lower half of the painting, there is a view of an interior with four figures present, three of which are sitting at a low table. There is a staircase on the lower right, with a man standing on it, looking upwards. There is also a house on a cliff towards the upper right of the painting. There is calligraphy in the upper right hand corner, with a red seal. There is another red seal, although a bit faded, in the lower left corner of the image.
Artist Life Dates: 1478- after 1567
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: mid 16th century
Accession Number: 1961/1.161
Medium and Support: hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
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Title: Brewing Tea under Pines by a Stream
Artist: Zhou Chen (Chou Ch'en)
Physical Description: Vertically oriented. Ink on silk with silk edging. Three figures at a stream in a wooded area.
Artist Life Dates: active 1515-1535
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: mid 16th century - late 16th century
Accession Number: 1963/2.3
Medium and Support: ink and color on paper
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