NHD52/26

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum indicum L.; Asteraceae family

Original inscriptions: 胭胋带雪 (front lower right in ink, attached to painting with pin)

Further inscriptions: H. Sh. (front lower left in ink); Chrysanthemum indicum variegatum (front lower right in pencil)

Flowering branch of a pink tinted chrysanthemum plant. Two twigs with bloomed flowers at apex. Along each twig, numerous alternate, lobed leaves with sinuous lobed margins. The upper surface of the leaves is dark green, with light green underside. Left to right at the apex of each twig one fully bloomed flower depicted from the back, laterally, and front facing. The corolla is constituted by several layers of numerous long and narrow petals, which are white and pink in colour. The petals sit on a round pedicel with numerous short and thin sepals. On the front facing flower: numerous stamens are depicted in a round, yellow receptacle. On the right twig, two smaller stems sprout out laterally, each with smaller leaves, and one fully closed, globulose bud, and one slightly open flower, depicted laterally. Lower left: illustration of four yellow stamens, the green pedicel with the tightly clustered sepals, and four white-pink petals of increasing size.

Any further details: White paint partly oxidised.