Description
Chinese Puppets. Miles Catalog No. 18 Incredible details in the puppets’ clothing, hats and mask. Even their fingernails are colored red. Design required a very complex printing sequence with metallics over and under other inks.
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Very subtle underprinting of silver in the tunic of one puppet. Complex and detailed designs in tunics and headgear. Note the very delicate red lines on the puppet fingers, and soft bokashi gradations in the fabric of his robe.
Additional information
| Dimensions | 18.5×14 in. paper. Conservation framed with double silk fabric wrapped matboard and silver wood moulding |
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| Condition | Excellent color and impression. Very vivid with no fading whatsoever. |
| Signature & Seals | pencil signed with red mandarin duck seal and watermark in paper reading "JP" and "Jacoulet" in kanji |
| Artist Name | Paul JACOULET (1896?-1960) |
| Medium | original woodblock print |
| Edition | stamped in red verso: 309/350 |
| Year | 1935 |
photo by Svein Olslund