Period:Qing dynasty Production date:c. 1735-c. 1750
Materials:paper
Technique:printed, gauffrage, woodblock,
Subjects:bird and flower lotus
Dimensions:Height: 29.90 centimetres Width: 36 centimetres
Description:
Signature: Liangxian (亮先) Multicoloured woodblock print in ink on paper
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![图片[1]-print BM-1906-1128-0.5-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00091768_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-print BM-1906-1128-0.5-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00717809_001.jpg)
Comments:The impression shows a lotus flower in dark pink and a bird stting on a lotus pod trying to pcik its seeds. ‘Lotus’ (lian) puns with ‘successive’ (lian); its ‘seeds’ (zi) are homophone with ‘son’ (zi). This alludes to the saying, ‘May you have a succession of sons’ (Liansheng guizi). The image is impressed in fresh, bright colours and bears a poetic inscritpion on the upper part that is signed ‘Mr. Liangxian’.The sheet belongs to a group of prints manufactured by the Ding clan in Suzhou that show subject matter such as flower baskets, fruit dishes, flowering branches, plants and birds, and antiquities (cat.17-20). Prints of this type seem also to have appealed to foreigners and are found in eighteenth-century European collections. No such print is presently known to be preserved in China.
Materials:paper
Technique:printed, gauffrage, woodblock,
Subjects:bird and flower lotus
Dimensions:Height: 29.90 centimetres Width: 36 centimetres
Description:
Signature: Liangxian (亮先) Multicoloured woodblock print in ink on paper
IMG
Comments:The impression shows a lotus flower in dark pink and a bird stting on a lotus pod trying to pcik its seeds. ‘Lotus’ (lian) puns with ‘successive’ (lian); its ‘seeds’ (zi) are homophone with ‘son’ (zi). This alludes to the saying, ‘May you have a succession of sons’ (Liansheng guizi). The image is impressed in fresh, bright colours and bears a poetic inscritpion on the upper part that is signed ‘Mr. Liangxian’.The sheet belongs to a group of prints manufactured by the Ding clan in Suzhou that show subject matter such as flower baskets, fruit dishes, flowering branches, plants and birds, and antiquities (cat.17-20). Prints of this type seem also to have appealed to foreigners and are found in eighteenth-century European collections. No such print is presently known to be preserved in China.
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![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
