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Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bird with Plum Blossoms)

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.j
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Print
A horizontal album leaf features an ink and color painting of a bird with a teal head and yellow breast. Perched on a branch, the bird faces our right, its long, pale blue tail extending downward. Muted pink blossoms and buds sprout from the gnarled plum limb that curves from the lower right across the tan paper. In the lower left, vertical Chinese calligraphy appears alongside two red square seals.

Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Bird with Plum Blossoms)

1700s

Zhang Ruoai

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

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