Zhou Dunyi admiring lotus flowers
In this painting, Zhou Dunyi holds a fan like the one the shape of the pictures imitates. There is no mark along the centerline of the painting to indicate that the picture ever served as an actual fan, but the consonance of round forms in lotus leaves, fan and format is pleasing.
Artwork Details
- 清 舒浩 賞蓮圖 團扇
- Title: Zhou Dunyi admiring lotus flowers
- Artist: Shu Hao (Chinese, active late 19th century)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: late 19th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Fan-shaped album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Diam. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.267.56
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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