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Shi Tao's Mid-Autumn Festival from the Abe Collection

Shi Tao's Mid-Autumn Festival from the Abe Collection Image: Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

The featured work is 'Mid-Autumn Festival (Illustrations of Poems by Su Shi)', an album of 12 leaves.

The work belongs to the Abe Collection.

It is attributed to Shi Tao, who lived from 1642 to 1707, and is identified as a Qing-period work from the 17th–18th century.

The item describes Su Shi returning home from a moon-viewing banquet and admiring the moon alone again.

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