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The plants on this embroidery evoke an auspicious rebus, or multipart visual pun: magnolia (yulan 玉蘭), crabapple (haitang 海棠) and peony (nicknamed fugui 富貴) combine to mean “fortune in the jade hall” (yutang fugui 玉堂富貴), a wish for riches and honor.
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清 刺繡玉堂富貴圖
Title: Magnolia, crabapple, and tree peony
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date: late 17th–early 18th century
Culture: China
Medium: Silk embroidery on silk twill
Dimensions: Image: 49 1/4 × 26 3/4 in. (125.1 × 67.9 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Embroidered
Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Straka Gift and Rogers Fund, 1973
Object Number: 1973.8
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