Boats at Anchor on West Lake at the City Gate
Cleveland Museum of Art

Boats at Anchor on West Lake at the City Gate

1150–1200

Album leaf; ink and color on silk
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The depiction of the female figure playing the pipa and the scholarly male evokes an association with a romantic encounter narrated in a well-known Tang dynasty poem.

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