hanging scroll
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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 • Nov. 12, 2025
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 • Sep. 22, 2023
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
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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