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Old Plum
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Four sliding-door panels (fusuma); ink color gold and gold leaf on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art Gift of Harry G. C. Packard and Purchase Fletcher Rogers Harris Brisbane Dick and Louis V. Bell Funds Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift 1975
Title: Old Plum
Description:
Four sliding-door panels (fusuma); ink color gold and gold leaf on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan.
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