Magpie on a Flowering Bush
Artist
Zheng Pei
(Chinese)
Datelate 18th century
MediumHanging scroll: ink and colors on paper
Dimensions40 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches (101.9 x 33.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Martie and Alice Young
Terms
- Paintings
- Scroll
- Hanging scroll: ink and colors
- Animals
- Birds
- Flowers
- Grasses
- Magpies
- Tree branches
- Paper
- Chinese
Object number79.068.002
Label CopyZheng Pei is recorded in Chinese sources as a court painter, active during the Qianlong period (1736-1795). He was apparently a pupil of Shen Nanping, a Chinese painter who lived for a few years in Nagasaki, Japan, and who gained some fame there for his bird and flower paintings. Like his teacher, Zheng Pei is well represented in Japanese collections and this painting is typical of the type of bird and flower painting greatly admired by the Japanese in the eighteenth century. In Chinese art magpies are emblems of joy.Collections
ca. 17th-18th century
18th century