明 徐敬 歲寒清白圖 軸, The Pure Whiteness of Winter, Xu Jing, dated 1441

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明 徐敬 歲寒清白圖 軸, The Pure Whiteness of Winter, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1441, China, Hanging scroll; ink on silk, Image: 58 7/8 x 30 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Xu Jing (Chinese, active first half 15th century), Flowering through snow and cold, plum blossoms are popular symbols of court beauties and of reclusion; as such, they embody romance, tears, lost loves, and the eternal return of springtime. Xu Jing entitled his painting The Pure Whiteness of Winter, partaking of a tradition of imagery in poetry and painting that goes back one thousand years

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