Screen

CASE 1:  Women and Arts in the 13th Century

A screen is a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a frame that serves as a partition. In the picture below, the rectangular device behind the lady at the desk is a screen. The maid is presenting lichee fruit on a carved ice platter to her master.

picture element: screen Artist: Yu JiTitle: Presenting Lichee Fruit on a Carved Ice Platter

Date: 1738–1823

Period: Qing Dynasty (1644–1911 AD)

Medium: Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

Location: University of Michigan Museum of Art

 

Inscription:

Presenting lichee fruit on a [carved] ice platter,

Painted by Yu Ji, whose hao is Qiushi Jushi (meaning “a recluse in an autumn chamber”).

One artist’s seal, “Qiushi yin xin,” immediately follows the inscription.
From Marshall P. S. Wu. The Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Chinese Painting from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Regents of the University of Michigan: Ann Arbor 2000), p.271.

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