元 錢選 梨花圖 卷, Pear Blossoms, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), ca. 1280, China, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 12 5/16 x 37 7

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元 錢選 梨花圖 卷, Pear Blossoms, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), ca. 1280, China, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 12 5/16 x 37 7/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Qian Xuan (Chinese, ca. 1235–before 1307), Qian Xuan was one of the first scholar-painters to unite poetry, painting, and calligraphy within a single work. In Pear Blossoms a perfect interplay of poetic and pictorial imagery has been achieved. The artist's poem may be translated as follows: All alone by the veranda railing, teardrops drenching the branches, Although her face is unadorned, her old charms remain; Behind the locked gate, on a rainy night, how she is filled with sadness

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