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Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bats, rocks, flowers circular calligraphy)

1700s

Zhang Ruoai 張若靄

(Chinese, 1713–1746)
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Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
album leaf, ink and color on paper
Measurements
Image: 14.4 x 20.3 cm (5 11/16 x 8 in.); Album, closed: 15 x 10.8 x 3 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift 1967.193.b
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Location
Not on view
Print
Across two panels, this ink and color painting depicts slender bamboo rising from a green rock in the lower left. Centrally, a gnarled tree grows from a vertical rock beneath a prominent red circular seal featuring calligraphy. In the lower right, white and red flowers bloom from low foliage. Red bats fly among gold-lined clouds across the upper portion against a tan background scattered with gold leaf flecks.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bats, rocks, flowers circular calligraphy)

1700s

Zhang Ruoai

(Chinese, 1713–1746)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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