清 金? 梅花 扇面|Plum
The Met
Artist: Jin Lan(Chinese, 1841–1910)
Date: dated 1886
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
Dimensions: 7 x 21 in. (17.8 x 53.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Fan-shaped painting with white blossoms on dark branches, a light background, and dark calligraphy
Detailed Description
A fan-shaped painting is depicted, wider at the top and curving inward towards the bottom. The background is a light, muted blue-gray, with subtle vertical lines that suggest the structure of a fan. Across the central and right areas, a dense network of dark, gnarled branches is covered in numerous small, white blossoms. The flowers are rendered with delicate white petals, some appearing as tight clusters, others as individual blooms, creating a rich, textured pattern that fills much of the fan's surface. In the upper left quadrant, several columns of dark, vertical calligraphy are visible. Below this text, in the lower left corner, is a small, square red seal. A second, larger red seal is positioned in the lower right corner of the fan.
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