Object Details
Artist
Zheng Pei
Date
late 18th century
Medium
Hanging scroll: ink and colors on paper
Dimensions
40 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches (101.9 x 33.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Martie and Alice Young
Object
Number
79.068.002
Zheng Pei is recorded in Chinese sources as a court painter, active during the Qianlong period (1736(…)
Zheng Pei is recorded in Chinese sources as a court painter, active during the Qianlong period (1736-1795). He was apparently a pupil of Shen Nanping, a Chinese painter who lived for a few years in Nagasaki, Japan, and who gained some fame there for his bird and flower paintings. Like his teacher, Zheng Pei is well represented in Japanese collections and this painting is typical of the type of bird and flower painting greatly admired by the Japanese in the eighteenth century. In Chinese art magpies are emblems of joy.
