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Unfolding Nature: Images of Summer on Chinese and Japanese Fans

(from 10th Jul until 7th Oct 2012)

Enjoy the summery scenes on fan paintings from the Chinese and Japanese reserve collection.

Detail of Praying mantis, bee, and prunus blossom, by Chen Fen, China, 1881 (Museum No: EA1966.200)
Rose and praying mantisfront

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Rose and praying mantis

  • Description

    One seal on this fan painting probably reads Baoru, who is an unrecorded artist but might be related to the group of artists who were active in late 19th century Guangdong province.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    China (place of creation)
    Date
    19th century (1801 - 1900)
    Artist/maker
    probably Liu Baoru (active 19th century) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 40.5 x 55.5 cm (height x width)
    painting 25 x 53.5 cm sight size (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    fan-painting,
    painting,
    fan-painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1966.
    Accession no.
    EA1966.202

  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 2.25 on p. 228, illus. p. 229 fig. 2.25

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