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Flowers and Rocks
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Charles L. Freer
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Flowers and Rocks

1368–1644
Medium
hanging scroll; color on silk
Dimensions
Overall: 162.6 x 48.6 cm (64 x 19 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Charles L. Freer

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Provenance

Public
?–1915

Charles L. Freer [1854–1919], Detroit, MI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1915–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

Charles L. Freer [1854–1919], Detroit, MI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Here, the painter uses delicate brushwork and vivid colors to depict an early summer scene of three kinds of flowers growing beside a garden rock: From top to bottom we see flowering pomegranate, then peonies, and lilies below. Like the peony, which conveys wishes for wealth and prosperity, the pomegranate flower, here in festive red color turning soon into fruit with many seeds, is associated with the wish for many sons. The lily, in Chinese "<em>baihe,</em>" is a homophone with the pun "togetherness for a hundred years," expressing wishes for harmony and unity. The scroll would have made a suitable gift to married women.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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