Have you seen the “Taiwan Lantern Festival” in Chiayi, TAIWAN?
We also have ‘Lanterns’ in the exhibition!
【Joyous Matters of Approaching Peace (Lanterns)】
Anonymous, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Album leaf, ink and… 更多 colors on silk, 18.5 x 24.3 cm
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Celebrations Lighting Up the Night: A Special Exhibition of Paintings on the Lantern Festival
Dates: 01 JAN 2018 ~ 25 MARCH 2018
Gallery: 210, Exhibition Area I (Northern Branch)
Website: http://theme.npm.edu.tw/exh107/lantern/en/index.html
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This album with a total of twelve leaves depicts court ladies with children playing in courtyards on the Lantern Festival in a festive mood to celebrate the New Year. In the paintings are lanterns decorated in the form of an elephant, crane, deer, bat, hawk, rabbit, and the God of Literature. Their great variety and refined production reveal the lavish lifestyle of the Qing court at the New Year with nothing left out.