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Add Or 2254
- Record Id:
- 040-003468312
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263788
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100089357722.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 2254
- Title:
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[Interior with religious festival display]. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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[Interior with religious festival display]
Depiction of a central wooden stand with recessed waist and a bronze incense burner and a bronze zun vessel on top, between them a small blue cup on a red lacquer miniature stand. At each side, matching long wooden tables with trestle legs; on the left a crane and a peach on a dish, on the right a vase with lingzhi, and a hare's head incense burner; all objects on the side tables are made of gnarled roots. Above the central table, a calligraphic plaque shaped as flower baskets hangs from the ceiling; in vertical script "Gathering like clouds" (雲集), below in horizontal script "the mountains and rivers have always been beautiful; the flowers and trees will be green for four seasons" (江山千古秀, 花木四時春), further signed "written by chance on an auspicious morning in the first month of winter" (孟冬吉旦偶書). At either side matching oval lanterns with written "Longevity" (壽).
This image is part of an album of 136 paintings, Add Or 2197-2332.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263788
040-003468312 - Is part of:
- Add Or 2197-2313 : 117 drawings illustrating the contents and furnishings of Chinese houses and temples.
Add Or 2254 : [Interior with religious festival display]. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003263788[0058]/040-003468312
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 2197-2313
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not Applicable
- Styles:
- China/Canton style
Chinese school - Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1806
- Date Range:
- 1800-1806
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: Gouache on Western paper
Measurements: 37x45cm
- Publications:
- Lo, A., & Wood, Frances. (2011). Da ying tu shu guan te cang zhong guo qing dai wai xiao hua jing hua = Chinese export paintings of the Qing Period in the British Library. Volume III. Guangzhou: Guangdong People's Publishing House. pp. 158-159.
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Furniture
Interiors - Places:
- Canton, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Asia