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.
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
