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Gourd with Seals
Also titled Kalebas met zegels
Rai San’yô (1780–1832)
1790 - 1832
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 123.5 cm x width 43.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.P. Filedt Kok, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Rai Sanyo was a Confucian scholar, poet, author, and calligrapher. He also owned a large collection of seals. Impressions of his many seals were recorded in books and handscrolls. Here, 57 examples fill, as it were, a hanging gourd.
