A View of Chinese Gardens
(from 5th Aug until 30th Nov 2014)Explore the 'Four Gentlemen' of Chinese flowers and garden scenes from the Ashmolean collections.
Important elements of Chinese gardens include use of dense potted plants, lakes, and gardens are often the setting for leisure activities and gracious living of the Chinese gentry. Plants carrying symbolic meanings sometimes appear in Chinese paintings together, regardless of their native regions and growing seasons.
Garden in Guangzhou (LI2022.182)
Blue-and-white jar and lid with female figures in a garden landscape (EAX.1605)
Blue-and-white jug with garden landscape and Dutch silver mount (EA1978.794)
Spring Morning in Han Palace (EA2007.167)
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