Asian Scroll Conservation

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Last Friday we took a Japanese Scroll Painting of Birds and Flowers by Motonobu Kano, a 15th century painter, to Nishio Conservation Studio for a condition report and treatment estimate.  Above is a detail image of the painting in it’s current condition. Below you see conservator Yoshi Nishio examining the scroll.

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The painting was donated to Bryn Mawr College by Elizabeth Gray Vining, Class of 1923.  Vining was the tutor for the Crown Prince of Japan from 1946-1950 and received this scroll as a gift from the royal family.

For an oral history interview with Elizabeth Gray Vining go to: http://greenfield.brynmawr.edu/items/show/1452