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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the 18th of 23 volumes, probably from a reprint of the 1812-1817 Japanese edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular opening illustrates the method for painting figures. The small figure of a servant boy – identifiable by his hairstyle of twin topknots – hides amongst trees in Xu Bing’s The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll [LI2007.77]. Most of the figures in the scroll in fact appear in groups.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (probable place of publication)
    Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (possible place of creation)
    Date
    1812 - 1817
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Material and technique
    print; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 26.4 x 17.6 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 26.5 x 29.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed,
    bound
    Object type index
    visual representation › print,
    communications equipment › book
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.6

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 84 on p. 167, p. 151, illus. p. 167 fig. 84

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