Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
Illustrated by Hu Zhengyan and others · Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper · First edition printed in 1633 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Compare the fruit-filled vessel with the perforated rock: one gathers rounded forms, while the other opens into holes.
Exhibition: City of Memory: Nanjing in the Seventeenth Century — The Metropolitan Museum of Art · –