Plum blossom
Details
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Title
Plum blossom
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Artist/maker
Jin Nong (1687 - 1763 or 1764) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
1761 -
Material and technique
ink on silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 185 x 52 cm (height x width)
painting 87 x 39.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 61 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Lady Cash Bequest, 1965.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1965.62
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Catalogue text
Jin Nong was born in Renhe (present day Hangzhou) and is known as one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, where he settled in 1748 following the death of his wife. He is known to have begun painting seriously at the age of fifty, possibly as a result of his failure in 1736 to pass the official examinations in Peking.
In: Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000)
Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 56 on p. 77, illus. p. 77 fig. 56
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