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NHD53/13
- Record Id:
- 041-003272503
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000b63
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD53/13
- Title:
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Huodendron. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Huodendron
Huodendron Rehder; Styraceae family
Original inscriptions: 山茉莉 (front lower left in ink); 山茉莉 Shan-mout-lei (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink)
Flowering branch of a huodendron plant. Lower half of the branch brown with silver marks, upper half light green with branched out panicle inflorescence. Long, elliptic leaves with entire margins and alternate golden veins are distributed along the length of the branch, decreasing in size going upward. Six bloomed flowers, four front facing, one laterally facing and one back facing, are depicted in the inflorescence panicle and surrounded by globular green buds. The flowers are densely petaled, petals are white with pale orange base, deep orange stamens. Lower right corner: illustration of dissected flower members, including five pairs of white with orange edges petals shown with green sepal; green pedicel with one long thin bract, and five round sepals, two of which detaching from the pedicel; ovary and yellow corona, followed by five stamens with white filaments and yellow reversed V-shaped anthers.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272490
041-003272503 - Is part of:
- NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…
NHD53 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
NHD53/13 : Huodendron. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0002]/040-003272490[0013]/041-003272503
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: NHD52-57
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Chinese
English - Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Chinese school
- Start Date:
- 1800
- End Date:
- 1800
- Date Range:
- c 1800
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Appointment required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 29.5x33cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia