Object Details
Artist
Shen Quan
Date
18th century
Medium
Hanging scroll: ink on silk
Dimensions
20 × 62 inches (50.8 × 157.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Alice and Martie Young
Object
Number
2000.161
Shen Quan, also known as Shen Nanping, was an artist who specialized in bird-and-flower painting. Pa(…)
Shen Quan, also known as Shen Nanping, was an artist who specialized in bird-and-flower painting. Paintings of vividly portrayed birds and flowers are admired and collected by connoisseurs in China. Depictions of birds-and-flowers in circular fan shapes are placed on the top of the scrolls. A picture of a pair of magpies in a plum tree would also make an appropriate wedding gift, representing wishes for marital happiness.
