Antique Chinese Scroll, The Butterfly Lovers
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Pre 1900 item# 790346 (stock# ALR2391)
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The Kura
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The girl, slender as a sapling, prepares her coiffure as a young man peeks into the room. A mid Qing Dynasty painting mounted as a Japanese hanging scroll likely depicting the star crossed lovers Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai, known as the Butterfly Lovers, an 800 year old tale of young love similar to but pre-dating the Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet drama. Exquisitely depicted with pigment on silk bordered in Kinran green silk threaded with geometric patterns in couched gold, extended with p ...click for details
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