# Egrets and Kingfishers

- By: anonymous
- Date: 1368 - 1644
- Medium: ink, dye, silk
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: diameter 21 mm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of Betsy Westendorp-Osieck, 1952)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-96-A--1855537cfbc373d679eea9af75d01d13)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c6730900154ceada317e906fb4a81b83.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This pair of paintings depicts the winter and summer with different birds. While they may be viewed as companion pieces, each picture can also function as an independent work. Another possibility is that both originally belonged to a series of four paintings depicting the four seasons.