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Chinese Bellflowers
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Chinese Bellflowers

Date unknown

Medium

Folding fan remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Image: 15 1/4 × 22 3/8 in. (38.7 × 56.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 51 1/8 × 27 3/4 in. (129.9 × 70.5 cm) Overall with knobs: 51 1/8 × 29 3/4 in. (129.9 × 75.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975

Classification

Paintings

Department

Asian Art

Culture

Japan

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Rights

Public Domain

About Ogata Kōrin

1658–1716Japan

Noted as one of the most important Japanese artists of the 17th century; known for paintings of irises and other subjects. He was regarded, along with Sotatsu, as one of the masters of the Sotatsu-Koetsu school of decorative painting, including painted screens and textile designs. He was descended from a samurai who had served under the Ashikaga rulers.