Painting

Birds by a pond; single-page unfinished painting on a detached album folio. A parliament of birds beside a pavilion set against a pond or lake. The birds include pairs of parrots, hoopoes, partridges, pheasants, ducks, a pelican, an eared nightjar and a waterhen. Ink and opaque watercolour on paper.

Kind

artefact

Date

1700–1750 CE