Flowers and Plum Blossoma

Description

Qian Juying 钱聚瀛
China, active mid-19th century
Flowers and Plum Blossoms
Qing dynasty (1644–1912)
1861
Fan mounted as album leaf, ink
and color on gold flecked paper
Museum purchase made possible
by the Margaret Watson Parker Art
Collection Fund, 1969/1.102

In nineteenth-century China, it was common to
create gift fans made by multiple artists. The left
side of this fan features plum blossoms painted
by Qian Juying, a woman artist and native of
Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, who descended from
a distinguished lineage of scholar-painters. An
unidentified artist contributed the pink and purple
flowers in the center, while Wu Yun 吳雲 (1811–1883),
a notable scholar, collector, and calligrapher, penned
the two colophons. Colophons often include poetry
or commentary on the painting.

(Chinese Gallery Rotation, Summer 2025)