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Flowers in a Vase
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Description
Cheng Shifa (1921-2007) acquired a reputation as an accomplished book illustrator and figure painter. However, he showed more interest in flower and bird paintings in his later years and published a volume of this genre in 1979. The three leaves displayed here [EA1995.175.i, EA1995.175.b, and EA1995.175.l] are from an album [EA1995.175] painted around that time, demonstrating looser brushwork than his figure paintings. The title, Flowers in a Vase, does not provide much information but the flowers depicted here may be loosely linked to plants in the family of Rosaceae, which has numerous cultivars nowadays and is extensively cultivated in China as an ornamental plant.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (place of creation)
- Date
- 1978
- Artist/maker
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Cheng Shifa (1921 - 2007) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 50.7 x 68.4 cm (height x width)
page 46.6 x 53 cm (height x width)
painting 34 x 42 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
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- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.175.i
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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. 10 on p. 21
Past Exhibition
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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
The highly colourful bird and flower paintings are loosely painted in the traditional mineral and plant pigments combined with ink favoured by Cheng Shifa. In the preface to a volume of bird and flower paintings published around the time this album was painted, Cheng describes the genre as a supplement to figure painting, which has always been his principal concern.
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