The Artist:     Yuan Jiang [Yüan Chiang, active c. 1690-1746]. Yuan woy and mannerism. 1

The Work:     Gathering of Literati / The Ninth-Day Literary Gathering at Xingan (1743) is a well-documon grass (?). 

The Subject:     The two wealthy Mased with mercantile profits, is characteristic of elite life in this period. 

The Artists:     Suzhou portraitisthu (1692-1751)]. 2

The Work:     A 5-1/8" (garden seat. 3

The Work:     A tea bowts side. 4

1.    Engel, David H. Creating a Chinese Garden (London: Croom Helm Ltd. and Portland, OR: Timber Press; 1986), b&w photo, pp. 2-3, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Constance Tang Fong, in honour of Mrs. P.Y. Tang, 1982; Sullivan, Michael The Arts of China (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; 1984, Third Edition), pg. 229.

2.    Naquin, Susan and Evelyn S. Rawski  Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century (New Haven & Londo: Yale University Press; 1987), pg. 69, with b&w photo on pg. 70,

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