清 刺繡玉堂富貴圖|Magnolia, crabapple, and tree peony
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late 17th–early 18th century · Silk embroidery on silk gauze · Asian Art
The plants on this embroidery evoke an auspicious rebus, or multipart visual pun: magnolia (yulan 玉蘭), crabapple (haitang 海棠) and peony (nicknamed fugui 富貴) combine to mean “fortune in the jade hall” (yutang fugui 玉堂富貴), a wish for riches and honor.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- late 17th–early 18th century
- Medium
- Silk embroidery on silk gauze
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Straka Gift and Rogers Fund, 1973
