The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2]
The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, volume 2, is a Chinese painting manual compiled under the name Wang Gai, first published in 1748 for students and practising painters. Its double-page plates show birds, blossoming branches, peonies and flowers in outline and colour, with calligraphic inscriptions beside them. A designer could take from them the economy of a few branches set asymmetrically on a blank ground, with muted red, yellow and grey washes.
![Picture 1 of 7 from The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2] (1748), leaf 4](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19636-4-1.webp)
![Picture 2 of 7 from The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2] (1748), leaf 6](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19636-6-1.webp)
![Picture 3 of 7 from The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2] (1748), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19636-11-1.webp)
![Picture 4 of 7 from The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2] (1748), leaf 13](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19636-13-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 7 from The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2] (1748), leaf 15](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19636-15-1.webp)
![Picture 6 of 7 from The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2] (1748), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19636-17-1.webp)
![Picture 7 of 7 from The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual : [volume 2] (1748), leaf 19](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/met-p16028coll7_19636-19-1.webp)