# Melting the Gold and Predicting the Future

- By: Yu Guiyan (Chinese, 1859-1930?)
- Date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1901
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 102.9 × 39.4 cm (40 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/46394)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/751ef76aa3c1b2573d95900b27d0a735.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)