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  • Ink line drawing on beige paper of figures in a pavilion courtyard beside a gnarled tree and a grape trellis.
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Unidentified artist - Odes of the State of Bin- The Seventh Month - 13th century v17 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal

Unidentified artist - Odes of the State of Bin- The Seventh Month - 13th century v17 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal

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Unidentified artist - Odes of the State of Bin- The Seventh Month - 13th century v17 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal

A 13th-century Southern Song handscroll that unrolls the agrarian year of "The Seventh Month," one of the celebrated poems from the Odes of the State of Bin in the ancient Shijing.

Visual Elements & Composition

The work is an ink line drawing on paper in a horizontal handscroll format, built from restrained paper beige, ink grey and tree grey-green, with a single seal red accent. Figures dominate the scene: seated figures gather in an open pavilion, robed attendants stand nearby, and workers pound at a thatched house. A grape vine trellis and a gnarled flowering tree frame the action, so the eye moves across the panel from labour to leisure in one continuous sweep.

Meaning & Symbolism

The poem follows the seasonal labours of farming, sericulture, weaving and the celebrations that marked early Chinese country life. In Confucian thought the Odes of Bin carried political weight: by showing the hard work of rural people through the year, they reminded rulers that the state's wealth and stability rested on those labours. Understanding the daily hardships of common folk was considered essential to benevolent governance, which made this narrative a model of wise leadership and social harmony. The painting, by an unidentified master, reflects the courtly and scholar-official standards of its Southern Song period, and it is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A kiss-cut sticker follows the contours of its artwork, so the scroll's pavilion, trellis and tree become the sticker's edge rather than a rectangle set around them. Each figure and branch sits on its own shape, which suits a design built from separate episodes of one long scene. Placed on a notebook, laptop or journal, the cut outline lets the painting's rhythm of labour and rest read as a single image on the surface.

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