Plum and Magpies
Artist
Shen Quan
(Chinese, 1682–ca. 1760)
Date18th century
MediumHanging scroll: ink on silk
Dimensions20 × 62 inches (50.8 × 157.5 cm)
CultureChina
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Alice and Martie Young
Terms
- Paintings
- Hanging scroll
- Ink
- Animals
- Birds
- Flowers
- Inscriptions
- Magpies
- Plum blossoms
- Plum trees
- Seasons
- Winter
- Silk
- Chinese
Object number2000.161
Label CopyShen Quan, also known as Shen Nanping, was an artist who specialized in bird-and-flower painting. Paintings of vividly portrayed birds and flowers are admired and collected by connoisseurs in China. Depictions of birds-and-flowers in circular fan shapes are placed on the top of the scrolls. A picture of a pair of magpies in a plum tree would also make an appropriate wedding gift, representing wishes for marital happiness.
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