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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
CHANGSHA, May 16 (Xinhua) — Chinese experts have for the first time found several traces of repainting on a T-shaped silk painting found in the tomb of Chinese aristocrat Xin Zhui, who lived about 2,200 years ago, according to a press conference held Friday at the Hunan Provincial Museum in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province.
The museum’s specialists analyzed the material and paint composition of the silk painting using methods such as spectroscopy and surface microgeometry. During the study, the experts used multimodal imaging methods, including multispectral hyperspectral imaging and wide-field X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.
The composition of the material, ink and pigments were also studied, and the traces of ink and its distribution were visualized. The team of experts identified traces of overpainting – the application of one layer of coloring substance to another – thus completing the collection of data on the images on this work of art, which is a cultural relic and a national treasure of China.
Let us recall that the item in question was found in the Mawangdui Tomb, also known as the Xin Zhui Tomb. According to historical records, Xin Zhui was the wife of the Chancellor of the Changsha Principality during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC – 8 AD), and died at the age of about 50. -0-