Ink and colors on silk, hanging scroll format, in Japanese style painting mount, a languid scene of three elongated women in elegant robes gathered in a garden, inscribed to the exterior "Ming drawn" together with "Beautiful women in landscape," possibly a painting from the Ming dynasty brought to Japan and valued so remounted in the Japanese traditional hanging scroll format, brass roller knobs.

DOA 48 1/2 x 22 1/2 in., Image size 14 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.

From the Collection of the late Mr. & Mrs. Paul and Betty Mushak, Durham, North Carolina

Surface wear and extensive creases to silk; stable tear to upper left side; repair to top portion of painting.