Miao Jiahui
A Bouquet of Peonies
1894-1904
Scroll
Miao Jiahui
A Bouquet of Peonies
1894-1904
Physical Qualities
Ink and color on silk; mounted as a hanging scroll, 42 1/8 × 30 in. (107 × 76.2 cm.)
Image: 26 1/4 × 21 in. (66.6 × 53.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
2021.6
A bouquet of red, white, yellow and a modulated purple and maroon-colored peonies fastened by two blue ribbon ties at the stems of the flowers, spaced between the ties is a single closed peony.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase 2021, Alan Kennedy, Palo Alto, California; Lempertz Auction, Cologne; an Austrian private collection
Paul, Katherine Anne (editor). Handheld Landscapes: The Four Seasons in Chinese Painting from the Birmingham Museum of Art. Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2023. ill., p. 48.
Ying-chen Peng, "Reconfiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony" in "Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries," pp. 191-223, 1/17/2017. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004348950_008
Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska, "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911," Routledge, 2015, p. 157
Marsh Weidner, et al, Views from the Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists 1300-1912, Indianpolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1988, pp. 159, 165.
Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska, "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911," Routledge, 2015, p. 157
Marsh Weidner, et al, Views from the Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists 1300-1912, Indianpolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1988, pp. 159, 165.
Inscribed: Seals: five possibly spurious given uneveness of impressions - a large seal of the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) which reads, Cixi huangtaihou yu bi zhi bao (Cixi Empress Dowager imperial brush) - Yu shang ("imperial award") - Changchun gong jing jian xi (Palace of Eternal Spring choice mirror) [Imperial seal] - Lu Baozhong yin - illegibly faint seal
