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Flowers in a Vase

  • Description

    Cheng Shifa (1921-2007) acquired a reputation as an accomplished book illustrator and figure painter. However, he showed more interest in flower and bird paintings in his later years and published a volume of this genre in 1979. The three leaves displayed here [EA1995.175.i, EA1995.175.b, and EA1995.175.l] are from an album [EA1995.175] painted around that time, demonstrating looser brushwork than his figure paintings. The title, Flowers in a Vase, does not provide much information but the flowers depicted here may be loosely linked to plants in the family of Rosaceae, which has numerous cultivars nowadays and is extensively cultivated in China as an ornamental plant.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Shanghai province (place of creation)
    Date
    1978
    Artist/maker
    Cheng Shifa (1921 - 2007) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 50.7 x 68.4 cm (height x width)
    page 46.6 x 53 cm (height x width)
    painting 34 x 42 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    brush drawing
    Object type index
    painting,
    album
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
    Accession no.
    EA1995.175.i

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 10 on p. 21

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