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Squirrels and inkstone
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangsu province (possible place of creation)Asia › China › Shanghai province (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 1823 - 1896
- Artist/maker
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Xu Gu (1823 - 1896) (artist)style of Hua Yan (1682 - 1756 or 1762) (artist)Xu Gu (1823 - 1896) (calligrapher)
- Associated people
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Qingshen (active after 1823 - before 1896) (recipient)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on gold-flecked paper
- Dimensions
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frame 53.5 x 114 x 2 cm approx. (height x width x depth)
painting 35.2 x 68.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.267
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 103 on p. 77, p. 10, illus. p. 77 fig. 103
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Xu Fu, a painter of plants and animals rather than landscapes, is renowned for depicting popular subjects in a disciplined manner, and his skill in doing so is evident here. Squirrels and ornamental goldfish are the subjects with which he is most closely associated. Hua Yan (1682-1756) was one of the painters known as the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, from whom the Shanghai School artists drew inspiration. Yangzhou is also Xu Gu's native town.
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