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Liang Kai

Sericulture (The Process of Making Silk)

early 1200s
Handscroll; ink and color on silk

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The painting is attributed to Liang Kai, a court artist active from about 1201 to 1204 at the Imperial Painting Academy in the city of Hangzhou, a major silk weaving center from that time to the present day.

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