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Flowers and Plum Blossoma

Qian Juying (Ch'ien Chü-ying)

Artwork Details

Flowers and Plum Blossoma
1861
Qian Juying (Ch'ien Chü-ying)
fan mounted as album leaf, ink and color on gold flecked paper
10 5/8 x 22 5/8 in. (26.99 x 57.47 cm);18 x 27 15/16 in. (45.72 x 70.96 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1969/1.102

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Description

Qian Juying was a woman artist descended from a long line of well-known scholar-painters. She was well known for her skills in painting and poetry, and in this fan she painted the plum blossoms at the left. As noted elsewhere in the gallery, plum blossoms were a favorite subject among scholar-amateur painters, because of their associations with Confucian values. The more colorful flowers near the center of the fan were painted by an artist who has yet to be identified.
Maribeth Graybill, Senior Curator of Asian Art
Exhibited in "Flora and Fauna in Chinese Art," April 6, 2002 - December 1, 2002.

Physical Description:

A fan mounted on an album leaf with ink paintings of flowers and plum blossoms and calligraphy.

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