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NHD57/14
- Record Id:
- 041-003272718
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272438
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000c3a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- NHD57/14
- Title:
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Nun's hood orchid. Artist(s): Unknown.
- Scope & Content:
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Nun's hood orchid
Phaius tankervilleae (L.) Blume; Orchidaceae family
Original inscriptions: 鶴頂蘭 (front in ink)
Left to right: dissected view of the flower, including five elongated orange-reddish petals, curled white to fuchsia lip on pedicel and ovary. Flowering stem, showing thick, green tube, one fruit on the lower left, and numerous alternate pendulus flowers on the upper part of the stem, only the lower two opened and the rest still enclosed in elongated, pointy white buds. Dissected view of the green fruit on the right of the stem, showing deep ridges, interior white flesh. Pseudo-bulb with numerous thick, light brown roots, the lower part of the stem, and four basal oblong leaves, slightly curling, with yellowish-brown ends, and dark brown spots, one showing signs of decay.
Any further details: White paint partly oxidised.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Natural History Drawings
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272438
040-003272704
041-003272718 - 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
NHD57/14 : Nun's hood orchid. Artist(s): Unknown. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272438[0006]/040-003272704[0014]/041-003272718
- 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:
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Medium: watercolour
Measurements: 52.2x41.5cm
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Plants
- Places:
- China, Asia