Flowering Plum

Luo Ping

Chinese, 1733-1799

Ink and color on paper

Sheet: 5 11/16 x 4 1/8in. (14.4 x 10.5cm)

Gift of Chang Ch’ung-ho Frankel

2003.118.9

Provenance: Ling Yanchi 凌晏池 (1892–1965), Chang Ch’ung-ho Frankel 張充和 (born 1913, owner of album from 1947-2003)

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryBerkeley, California, University Art Museum, 23 January - 24 March 1985;
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, 18 April - 16 June 1985;
Saint Louis, Missouri, The Saint Louis Art Museum, 12 July - 8 September 1985.

Published ReferencesFrankel, Hans H., "The Flowering Plum and the Palace Lady: Interpretations of Chinese Poetry" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976), leaf 6 on cover. Bickford, Maggie. Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1985), pp. 138-139, figs. 67a-h.

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