EditorialFrieze, Block-printed paper, Frieze of drapery, urns, classic-revival architectural ornament. Beige ground divided into horizontal bandings by brown and blue molding, horizontal pointed elipses with floral and foliate ornamentation, and groupings of pa...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk, metallic (beaten gold on vellum wrapped around linen core) Technique: two integrated plain weave structures (lampas), with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocading), Addorsed dolphins in metal threads on a green gr...
EditorialPoem for Hanwen, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1493, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper, 6 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (16.5 x 47 cm), Calligraphy, Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427?1509), Shen Zhou modeled his writing after the runni...