Fishing with Cormorants, Chinese school, 20th century

Ink and polychromy on paper mounted in a vertical handscroll representing cormorant fishing, Chinese school of the 20th century, unidentified artist's seal, dated Gengshen (1980).

Fishing with domesticated cormorants is a very old fishery in Asia. It was mainly practiced in South China, especially in Guilin in the Lijiang River in Guangxi province.