Wang_Juzheng's_Spinning_Wheel,_Close_Up_2.jpg

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Close-up detail of a female figure from the right half of the Chinese artist Wang Juzheng's handscroll The Spinning Wheel . Deng Yingke and Wang Pingxing, on page 48 of their Ancient Chinese Inventions (2005, published by 五洲传播出版社, ISBN 7508508378 ) suggest an alternative title for this painting as The Making of Silk Fabric by Wang Juzheng, Northern Song Dynasty.

Date

Northern Song era, c. 1270

Source

http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/painting/4spinner.htm , Fu Xinian, ed., Zhongguo meishu quanji, huihua bian 3: Liang Song huihua, shang. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1988. pl. 19, p. 33. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Beijing. Wang Juzheng (Northern Song), The Spinning Wheel. Ink and colors on silk, 26.1 x 69.2 cm.

Author

Wang Juzheng

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