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Dragons

(Chinese, about 1200 – 1266)
mid-13th century
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 45 × 255.3 cm (17 11/16 × 100 1/2 in.)
Overall: 46 cm (18 1/8 in.)
Credit LineChinese and Japanese Special Fund
Accession number14.50
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance1913, with a Mr. Re, China; October 5, 1913, sold by Mr. Re to Hayasaki Kokichi (b. 1874 - d. 1956) [see note 1] and taken to Japan; December, 1913, shipped to Boston and purchased by the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] The MFA's purchasing agent in China.

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