Public-domain art from China
200 public-domain plates · 34th century BCE to 20th century · 2498 attributed
200 public-domain works from China spanning the 34th century BCE to 20th century, drawn from museum open-access programmes and released under CC0 or an equivalent public-domain flag. Free to download and reuse. Of these, 2498 carry a named artist or maker.
Artists & makers in this set
- China 1591
- Unidentified artist 134
- Han-Chinese 102
- Manchu 62
- Chinese export porcelain 34
- Xugu 33
- China, for the Thai Market 30
- Artist unknown 20
Subjects covered
Museum sources
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Elaeagnus conferta Roxb.
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Glochidion eriocarpum Champ. ex Benth.
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Phyllanthus annamensis Beille
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Baccaurea ramiflora Lour.
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Phyllanthus pubens Müll. Arg.
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Phyllanthus cinerascens Hook. & Arn.
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Jatropha multifida L.
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Xanthoceras sorbifolium Bunge
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Eight Heavenly Emperors
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Conversation in a cave
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Brush pot with hunting scene
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Landscape
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Prunus
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Bamboo, plum, and rock
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Herdboy and Buffalo
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Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Moonlit terrace
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Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”
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Primula polyneura Franch.
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Ardisia japonica (Thunb.) Blume
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Myrsine seguinii H. Lév.
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Primula sp.
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Terminalia myriocarpa Van Heurck & Müll. Arg.
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Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels
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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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School Scene
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Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Portrait of a gentleman gathering chrysanthemums
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Fishing Scene
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Guanyin
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Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight
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Historical and legendary figures
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Ink Tablet with Thousand-Year Fungus Motif
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Berchemia lineata (L.) DC.
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Ilex editicostata Hu & Tang
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Ampelocissus martinii Planch.
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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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The Everlasting Spring Immortal Hall
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Finches and bamboo
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Farewell at the Bridge of the Hanging Rainbow
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The Hundred Birds
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Lȕ Dongbin and the Spirit of the Peony
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Chan master riding a mule
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Replanted Tree Library
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Bamboo copied after Wen Tong
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The Immortal Lü Dongbin Appearing over the Yueyang Pavilion
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Ziziphus jujuba Mill.
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Oxalis radicosa A. Rich.
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Lysimachia fortunei Maxim.
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Melia azedarach L.
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Zanthoxylum simulans Hance
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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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Minah Bird on a Loquat Branch
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Landscapes
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Landscape after a poem by Wang Wei
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River Scene
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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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Poem on growing old
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Bamboo
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Calligraphy
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Landscape
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A Page from the Jie Zi Yuan
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Landscape album
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Portrait of a Gentleman
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The Eight Drunkards
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Landscapes
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Landscape after Huang Gongwang
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Coriandrum sativum L.
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Osmanthus fragrans Lour.
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Styrax serrulatus Roxb.
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Ardisia crispa (Thunb.) A. DC.
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Quatrain on snow-covered West Lake
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Hall for Serene Chanting
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Landscape
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On the Seventeenth Day
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Garden scene
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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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Dragon pine
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Luohan
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Calligraphy after three texts by Yan Zhenqing
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Landscape
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Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Rhododendron simsii Planch.
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Rhododendron ovatum (Lindl.) Planch. ex Maxim.
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Fraxinus chinensis Roxb.
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Diospyros morrisiana Hance in Walp.
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Rehderodendron macrocarpum Hu
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Silent fisherman in an autumn wood
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The Three Scholars
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Scholar admiring plum blossoms
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Landscape with Figures
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Quail
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Flowers with Birds
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Classic of Spiritual Flight
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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
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Peach Blossoms, Bamboo and Birds
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Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wenji
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Crooked Pine
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Flowers
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Wintery Bough and Magpies
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Water Buffalo
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Cratoxylum polyanthum Korth.
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Autumn landscape with egrets and ducks
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Horsemanship Competition for the Shunzhi Emperor
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Two Birds and Bamboo Plant
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Nine Songs
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The Green and Remote (Small)? Hall
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Sheep and herd boy
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Viewing the Moon in an Empty Room
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Mongol with Horse and Camel
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Chrysanthemums
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Journey of the Tianwang (Devaradja)
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Narcissus
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Landscape in the Style of Zhao Boju (Fang Zhao Boju shanshui)
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Parasenecio vespertilio (Franch.) Hand.-Mazz.
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Podocarpus neriifolius D. Don
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Eriobotrya lasiogyna Franch.
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Cycas szechuanensis W.C. Cheng & L.K. Fu
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Dipsacus asper Wall.
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Podocarpus neriifolius D. Don
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Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Transcription of a Colophon to a Calligraphy by Zhao Mengfu
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Calligraphy
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Spiritual Stone
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Enjoying the Wilderness in an Autumn Grove
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Travelers in a Wintry Forest
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Couplet
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Horsemen with Dog
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Branch of blossoming plum
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Landscapes with poems
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Flowering Plum in Moonlight and Snow
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Landscapes and Flowers
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Petrocosmea minor Hemsl.
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Raphanus sativus L.
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Acanthocalyx alba (Hand.-Mazz.) M.J. Cannon
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Vitis bryoniifolia Bunge
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Hippocratea obtusifolia Merr.
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Campylotropis grandifolia Schindl.
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Oxytropis yunnanensis Franch.
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Scrophularia spicata Franch.
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Scrophularia diplodonta var. tsanchanensis Franch.
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Arabis alpina var. rubrocalyx Franch.
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Causonis japonica (Thunb.) Raf.
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Petrocosmea nervosa Craib
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Paraboea rufescens var. umbellata (Drake) K.Y. Pan
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Cissampelopsis spelaeicola (Vaniot) C. Jeffrey & Y.L. Chen
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Portrait scroll of seven generations of the same family
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Ink bamboo
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Vase
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In the Pine Courtyard, Leisurely Feelings
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Birds on Fruit Branch
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Lotuses on a summer evening
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Recluse washing his feet in a stream
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Listening to the Zither Among Streams and Pines
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Letter by Li Zhi
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Chinese bulbuls on flowering crab apple
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Fish and rocks
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Vertical scroll
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Purple Lichees and Bird
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Magpies Gathering in a Grove by a Pavilion
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Spring Dawn over the Elixir Terrace
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Letter
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Birds in a lotus pond
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Landscape of the four seasons
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Landscape
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Miniature Album with Figures and Landscape (Man and Woman)
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Cineraria palustris (L.) L.
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Pistacia weinmanniifolia J. Poiss. ex Franch.
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Berchemia formosana C.K. Schneid.
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Saussurea cordifolia Hemsl.
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Euphorbia hirta L.
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Ligularia lankongensis (Franch.) Hand.-Mazz.
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Bamboo in a spring thunderstorm
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Landscape in the Style of Li Gonglin
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Discretion, Thrift and Virtue
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Luohan
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Landscapes
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Nine Guardian Kings
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Mountains after Rain
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Landscape
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Girl Bringing Jar of Wine
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Drunken recluse beneath an old tree
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Waves in the moonlight
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Happy Return from the West
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Reading a sutra by moonlight
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Landscape
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Orchids
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Two Buddhist Paintings
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Horse and groom
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Painting
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Campylotropis mortolana Ricker
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Atalantia buxifolia (Poir.) Oliv.
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Beautiful Chanting Hall
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Portrait of Vimalakirti
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Wind and Water: Landscape in the Style of Mi Fu
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Ancient Fragrance Hall
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Monk Gazing at Clouds
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Landscape Painting of Figure in Woodland Setting
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Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Children playing in the palace garden
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