Unusual hand painted scroll from China. Illustrated in historically rich watercolors on rice paper, matted on silk. China has had superb and masterful painters in and around the city of Zhejiang where the ancient art of scroll paintings began. The world-wide distribution and collection of Chinese paint scrolls has contributed to the education of the world particularly their mastery in capturing landscapes which were some of the main subjects of their renderings on scrolls since the form began many hundreds of years ago. 18 inches by 52 high