Fine Chinese Painting - Mo Boji Family Collection #2

Ju Lian

Ju Lian (1828 – 1904)

Blossoms (Detail) 

Ink and colour on silk, handscroll 

Painting: 29.3 x 444.8 cm

Ju Lian and his cousin created many works of art during their travels and became close friends with Zhang Jingxiu. In Zhang’s garden at his home in Dongguan, the brothers sketched the majority of their floral paintings, bringing to life the flowers Zhang carefully tended. After Zhang passed away, Ju Lian and his brother moved to Panyu, where they built a garden of their own with flowers and plants of all types. It was their own garden that inspired Ju Lian to create Blossoms, a four-metre-long handscroll depicting more than 50 types of flowers in bloom, from across the four seasons.

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