Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace

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Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace,

1920s

Unknown artist
Chinese
Modern period, 1912–present
2022-27 a-c

Information

Title
Plan of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden-Palace
Dates

1920s

Maker
Unknown artist
Medium
Three hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Painting (a): 177.2 × 84.3 cm (69 3/4 × 33 3/16 in.) Mount (a): 241.3 × 87 cm (95 × 34 1/4 in.) Painting (b): 176.8 × 86.4 cm (69 5/8 × 34 in.) Mount (b): 241.3 × 87 cm (95 × 34 1/4 in.) Painting (c): 177.2 × 83.8 cm (69 3/4 × 33 in.) mount (c): 241.3 × 87 cm (95 × 34 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Object Number
2022-27 a-c
Culture
Chinese
Type
paintings, hanging scrolls
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink, colorant
Subject
plans (drawings), gardens (open spaces)

1920s Manchu official named Pai (Haidian area, Beijing, China);

1920s-2016, purchased by Carroll Brown Malone (CA);

until 2016, by descent to Malone family;

2016 Bonhams auction (San Francisco);

2016-2022, purchased by Nicholas Grindley LLC (New York, NY);

2022-present, purchased by Princeton University Art Museum

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