Birds and Flowers
Sun Yi, Birds and Flowers, 1699, hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Bequest of Margery Hoffman Smith, public domain, 83.38.357
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- Title
Birds and Flowers
- Related Titles
original language: 花鳥画
- Artist
- Date
1699
- Period
China: Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
- Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
painting: 48 1/2 in x 27 3/4 in; mounting; 92 1/2 in x 34 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
seals: 于峯孫億 , 孫億之印, 隹庸, stamped red seals, left side, below signature Transliteration: Yu Feng Sun I; Sun I chih-yin (Sun I's seal); Zhui Yonog Language: Chinese Description: 3 seals of the artist. Sun I chih-yin and Zhui Yong also appear on a painting of the Buddha's nirvana painting in the collection of the Fukuoka City Museum, formerly owned by Kôzenji in Satsuma.
inscription; signature; date: 康熙己卯秊春三月于峰孫億寫, ink, left side Translation: Kangxi, earth-rabbit year (1699), spring, 3rd month, painted by Yu Feng Sun Yi Language: Japanese
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
hanging scroll
- Culture
Chinese
- Credit Line
Bequest of Margery Hoffman Smith
- Accession Number
83.38.357
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Nature, in Chinese painting, appears both on the macro scale, in vast panoramas of mountains and rivers, and on the micro scale, in the genre traditionally known as "bird-and-flower painting." This scroll is one of the few examples in the Museum's collection of the latter.
The artist, Sun Yi, lived and worked in what is present-day Fujian province on the southeastern China coast. His work was well known in Japan, especially among the elite of the Satsuma clan in southern Kyushu. The Japanese-style mounting of this painting suggests that it has been handed down in Japan for some time.
