Garden Recreations

Description In the yard, a boy lights a firecracker as others either make music or huddle together. Younger women play a game, and a senior couple gestures to them. What a blissful time! Paintings in this style were executed by artists attached to the court of the Qianlong emperor (1736-95). Spurious signature of Ch'iu Ying (1494-1552).

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/11/1993	Examination	examined for exhibition
6/23/1998	Examination	examined for condition
1/04/2001	Examination	examined for exhibition
1/09/2002	Examination	examined for exhibition
7/16/2003	Examination	examined for exhibition

Provenance Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 60]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Inscription] Lower right; [Seal] Lower right

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1915