hanging scroll

American  

noun

1. scroll5

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Example Sentences

Yet the legible parts of a signature on the large hanging scroll named a 15th-century Chinese court painter, Xu Gui.

From The Wall Street Journal

According to conventional art-conservator wisdom, a hanging scroll should be remounted once a century or so, requiring the whole piece to be disassembled and reassembled — a risky process.

From Seattle Times

“Here’s the patient,” Uyeda says, gesturing to a Chinese hanging scroll laid out on one of the tables: a painting by an unknown artist in an unknown year, though curators suspect it was made in the 19th or early 20th century.

From Seattle Times

Among nearly 60 selected works are his hanging scroll landscape paintings, depicting mountainous and arboreous terrain.

From New York Times

The gallery represented some of these artists during their lifetimes, and all of the paintings have been remounted in the original hanging scroll format in wooden frames.

From New York Times