Painting: figure

One painting featuring the eleventh of The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Ershisi xiao), according to Guo Jujing (fl. 1300). Here Cai Shun collects mulberries for his mother. He explains to the rebels that the basket of sweet berries is for his mother and the basket of sour berries for himself. Inscription as follows:
第十一孝蔡順拾椹

Rewi Alley

870x782 mm (l x w)

C1960.82

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