# Schildering

- By: Gao Qipei (ca. –ca.)
- Date: 1700 - 1750
- Medium: paper, ink, dye
- Classification: finger painting
- Dimensions: height 27.2 cm x width 33.2 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Mayuyama Junkichi, Tokyo, 1955)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-290-B--ae695cdf93780d987ad78b2dcda6c2e8)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/BoUVu/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Ship approaching the waterfront. Gao Qipei (1660 - 1734). China c. 1700. Ink and colours on paper. The finger painter Gao Qipei was an experimental artist. 'The hand should be allowed to paint as it wishes, ' he wrote. He was fascinated by the unpredictability of a line drawn with a finger or nail. In the centre of this album page is a bird's-eye view of a boat. The hills in the foreground, however, are shown from a low perspective. A combination of various vantage points is a feature of Gao Qipei's work. The inscription, right: 'Little boat sails along mountains piled up a thousandfold' - this line by the old poet has not disappointed me. Qipei.