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Chinese colour prints

Unknown artist, 17th century

5 elaborate woodcuts of fruit, flowers and still lifes printed in as many as 22 colours to add to a set already in the British Museum as part of the Sloane Collection. The set already in the museum had, up to 1907, been in a large volume lettered on the back E. MSS Kaempfer, presumably bought by Kaempfer in Japan before 1692, when he left the East.

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Title of artwork, date

Chinese colour prints, 17th century

Date supported

1932

Medium and material

Colour prints

Grant

64

Total cost

64

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