153.5cm
60½"
60½"
71cm
28"
28"
Approximate Measurements
Artwork Panel: 52.8cm x 97.7cm ≈ 20¾" x 38½"
Silk/Brocade: 62cm x 153.5cm ≈ 24½" x 60½"
Width at Wooden Knobs: 71cm ≈ 28"
Close up view of the artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll
This artwork features a man playing the 
(Ancient Zither) which is a seven-stringed zither (some call it a Chinese horizontal harp). His companion sits next to him drinking tea and enjoying the music.
The Chinese characters include the title, (Musical Rhyme Picture), the year painted (Spring, 2008) and the artist's signature.
The artist's name is 
(Wang Wen-Hua) who lives in the Jinan area of Shandong Province in Northern China. He specializes in traditional figure paintings and subjects like this (especially Buddhism and philosophy-related themes).
This was painted on Chinese xuan paper (often incorrectly called "rice paper"). The artist used watercolors throughout.
After buying this from the artist in Jinan, I rolled it up in a tube, and put it in my backpack. I then took the 5-hour-train ride back to our workshop in Beijing. At the workshop, it was laminated to more sheets of xuan paper and silk brocade was added in the process of building this handmade wall scroll. See more about building handmade wall scrolls