hanging scroll
Americannoun
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This hanging scroll silk painting of the fourteenth century is an official court portrait of the first emperor of the Ming dynasty.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
More subtle but equally impressive, what looks like a painting on a hanging scroll is really a tapestry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2018
Ruthie V.’s “Sisters,” an oil-on-linen hanging scroll, is especially haunting, showing one sister with a double face and, possibly, double arms, while the other sister, facing away from the viewer, stays unknowable.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2018
In a page of downward-flowing Chinese characters mounted as a hanging scroll on imported Ming silk here, he copies one of his own poems, “A Serendipitous Composition While Drifting Through Life.”
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2010
The bare boards in the hall seemed worn thin by scrubbing and nowhere were any furniture or ornaments except the hanging scroll.
From The Motor Maids in Fair Japan by Stokes, Katherine
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