Prints

Boneless stalks of orchids blossoms and buds

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Type: Prints(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1633
Accession number: 2014.7.1.46
Compiler: compiled and edited by Hu Zhengyan 胡正言(Opens in new tab) (Chinese, 1579–1674)
Dimensions: book: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (24.8 x 28.6 cm.)
Medium: woodblock print; ink on paper
Description: One page from a woodblock printed book mounted as an album leaf. Two examples of orchid blossoms and buds laden stalks with descriptions: 晴: clear weather; 蕙蘭, 凢画花頭須上下相頋方有生意: hui orchid, when painting flowers, the up and down must respond to each other, only then will there be life/vitality; 初放: recently blooming; 雨: rain.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from June and Simon K.C Li, Fong Liu, Mei-Lee Ney, and Anne and Jim Rothenberg, in honor of Steven S. Koblik
Department: Asian Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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