NPM188 National Palace Museum: BAI HUI QING GONG: PINGHUA YU PENJING HUA TEZHAN. Pure Offerings of a Myriad Plants: Paintings on [of] Flower Vases and Potted Scenes. 百卉清供 : 瓶畫與盆景畫特展. Taibei, 2018. 227 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. 28x29 cm. Wrappers. GBP 85.00 Catalogue of an exhibition at the National Palace Museum in Taibei showing fine paintings (and a few embroideries) of vases filled with flowers, floral displays and potted scenes (penjing). Whilst the majority of the paintings have a flower vase or potted scene as the main theme, a number of the paintings are of a larger scene and/or landscape with a flower vase or floral display comprising a small part. The majority of the exhibits date from the Qing dynasty, a few earlier examples; Five Dynasties, Song and Ming. All illustrated in colour. Introductions to each section and descriptions of plates in English. Fuller text in Chinese including essays. Subjects: Painting Item 609 in List 210. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?n/NPM188.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |