Period:Qing dynasty Production date:19thC(late)-20thC(early)
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock, colour,
Dimensions:Height: 90 centimetres Width: 58.50 centimetres
Description:
Woodblock print in ink and colour with hand-applied colour and varnish on paper
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![图片[1]-print BM-1991-0213-0.1-2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00100775_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-print BM-1991-0213-0.1-2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00639037_001.jpg)
Comments:Princess Miaoshan holds a large whisk, ‘a symbol for whisking away the problems of the world’. According to legend, her sisters married, but she devoted her life to Buddhism and became a nun. Because she refused to marry, her convent was destroyed by her father’s troops. After being rescued by a divine being, Miaoshan retired to Mount Xiang, where she achieved enlightenment. When her father became ill in retribution for killing the nuns, she cured him with a special medicine made with her own flesh and eyes. Here she is accompanied by a beautiful woman, quite out of keeping with her religious persuasion. Since the title refers to three nuns, this print might have been one of two or three. (von Spee 2010)Blocks for New Year prints were produced over a period of many decades and printed annually for the Lunar New Year. The earliest extant specimen of a New Year print dates from the twelfth century and was found in the cavity of a pillar in the Beilin in Xi’an in western China. The tradition continued over several centuries, but the ephemeral nature of the prints meant that very little has survived from before the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. See also BM 1991,0212,0.5-6.(Rawson 1992)
Materials:paper
Technique:woodblock, colour,
Dimensions:Height: 90 centimetres Width: 58.50 centimetres
Description:
Woodblock print in ink and colour with hand-applied colour and varnish on paper
IMG
Comments:Princess Miaoshan holds a large whisk, ‘a symbol for whisking away the problems of the world’. According to legend, her sisters married, but she devoted her life to Buddhism and became a nun. Because she refused to marry, her convent was destroyed by her father’s troops. After being rescued by a divine being, Miaoshan retired to Mount Xiang, where she achieved enlightenment. When her father became ill in retribution for killing the nuns, she cured him with a special medicine made with her own flesh and eyes. Here she is accompanied by a beautiful woman, quite out of keeping with her religious persuasion. Since the title refers to three nuns, this print might have been one of two or three. (von Spee 2010)Blocks for New Year prints were produced over a period of many decades and printed annually for the Lunar New Year. The earliest extant specimen of a New Year print dates from the twelfth century and was found in the cavity of a pillar in the Beilin in Xi’an in western China. The tradition continued over several centuries, but the ephemeral nature of the prints meant that very little has survived from before the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. See also BM 1991,0212,0.5-6.(Rawson 1992)
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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)
