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Plum blossom
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Details
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- Date
- 1761
- Artist/maker
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Jin Nong (1687 - 1763 or 1764) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink on silk
- Dimensions
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mount 185 x 52 cm (height x width)
painting 87 x 39.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 61 cm (length)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Lady Cash Bequest, 1965.
- Accession no.
- EA1965.62
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 56 on p. 77, illus. p. 77 fig. 56
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Jin Nong was born in Renhe (present day Hangzhou) and is known as one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, where he settled in 1748 following the death of his wife. He is known to have begun painting seriously at the age of fifty, possibly as a result of his failure in 1736 to pass the official examinations in Peking.
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