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1948
GUSN-62357
Black and white basketweave scroll made of orange paper with black chinese characters
handscrolls
paper (fiber product)
silk (textile)
wood (plant material)
wood engraving (process)
Scroll
Unidentified Paper
Stipple Engraved
Silk
Scroll
Interpretation by students from the Harvard's Graduate School of Design 2/7/98: The scroll tells about a traditional Chinese instrument, narrow in shape which is covered in fabric, perhaps silk. ""Harmony, like the 50 strings of this musical instrument playing in tune."" Where strings could signify years, this scroll could be an acknowledgment of a 50th birthday, but more likely, a 50th anniversary.
Original to Gropius House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Ying Li
Unknown
46 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Ise Gropius
1984.356
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