清 趙之謙 芍藥 扇面, Peony, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1862, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on gold

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清 趙之謙 芍藥 扇面, Peony, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1862, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on gold-flecked paper, 7 x 20 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Zhao Zhiqian (Chinese, 1829–1884), Zhao Zhiqian focused his commitment to calligraphic brushwork upon the genre of flower painting. Such images, with their sumptuous colors and symbolic associations with beauty, prosperity, and good fortune, appealed to the tastes of the new urban consumer

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