Kashira with the Chinese Emperor Gentoku

Description Gentoku (Ch. Liu Bei [Liu Pei]) (161-223) was the first emperor of the Kingdom of Shu at the beginning of the Chinese Three Kingdoms period. His rise to power is one of the subjects of the 14th-century novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." This is part of a set with Walters 51.1068.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions none

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters