Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Prints
Boneless stalks of orchids blossoms and buds
Image not available
- Date
- 1633
- Accession number
- 2014.7.1.46
- Compiler
- compiled and edited by Hu Zhengyan 胡正言(Opens in new tab) (Chinese, 1579–1674)
- Dimensions
- book: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (24.8 x 28.6 cm.)
- Medium
- woodblock print; ink on paper
- Description
- One page from a woodblock printed book mounted as an album leaf. Two examples of orchid blossoms and buds laden stalks with descriptions: 晴: clear weather; 蕙蘭, 凢画花頭須上下 相頋方有生意: hui orchid, when painting flowers, the up and down must respond to each other, only then will there be life/vitality; 初放: recently blooming; 雨: rain.
