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NHD57/9
- Record Id:
- 041-003272713
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000c35
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD57/9
- Title:
-
Smilax. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Smilax
Smilax L.; Smilacaceae family
Original inscriptions: 山薯 (front lower left in ink); Shan-shen (reverse lower right in pencil)
Further inscriptions: W. Ch. (front lower left in ink); Smilax sp. (reverse lower right in pencil)
Flowering vine of a greenbrier plant. Pale pink-brown vine with small spiked, alternate ovate leaves, with three main light green veins, and a reticulate network of veinlets on the surface. Numerous curling tendrils. At the top of the vine, a small, red, leafy gem. Inflorescence stem from the leaf node, umbel structure with only one flower painted, and few sketched in pencil, unfinished. Lower right: small vine bearing fruit, umbels of globular, light green-yellowish berries. Beneath: dissected view of the flower, red long pedicel, with pale yellow petals, pubescent green ovary, with three stamens inserted at base and three curling, yellow stigma at top.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272704
041-003272713 - Is part of:
- NHD52-57 : NHD52-57 Six volumes of plant illustrations comprising 309 watercolour drawings of Chinese plants, mostly flowering shoots natural…
NHD57 : Album of Chinese plant illustrations, covers only
NHD57/9 : Smilax. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0006]/040-003272704[0009]/041-003272713
- 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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- Physical Characteristics:
-
Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 29.3x33cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia