Monkeys at Play

Two tall, narrow hanging scrolls, each with wide gold-patterned silk borders and plain mounting fabric above and below the painted panel. In the small painted area of the left scroll, two brown macaques sit low on a bare tan ground, one behind the other, facing left; in the right scroll, a single macaque is caught mid-leap above a small round object patterned in black, red, and white. Ink and light color on silk, with the artist's signature and a red seal beside each painted scene. Diptych of hanging scrolls, "Monkeys at Play," Mori Sosen, 1800.