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About the Artwork

Seated Woman with a Cat

late 1800 - 1930

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Chinese

Unknown

Watercolor, opaque watercolor, and ink on silk

Installed: 108 1/4 × 45 inches (275 × 114.3 cm) Image: 57 × 38 inches (144.8 × 96.5 cm) Mount: 107 × 41 1/2 inches (271.8 × 105.4 cm)

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Asian Art

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. Walter R. Parker

31.285

Public Domain

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Provenance

(Celestin Liu);
1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Margaret W. Parker

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Published References

University Liggett Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, June 13-16, 1979, p. 95.

Bulletin of the DIA 13, no. 7 (April 1932).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Chinese, Seated Woman with a Cat, late 1800 - 1930, watercolor, opaque watercolor, and ink on silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. Walter R. Parker, 31.285.

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