1592995977000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-23124 1756404191428 1756398000000 1756404187968 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-23124 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23124 15050095-b67f-35f4-b13a-e3208d0e092f 7 reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing reference term-147663 adlib-term-147663 dba3a4f7-8557-3dcb-9f8c-448db099b329 Broughton Collection reference term-106206 adlib-term-106206 da969d02-66a2-3e51-8dde-d1d8613f2ff6 paper Support Paintings, Drawings and Prints This is a Chinese export watercolour depicting a pink rose with butterflies and insects. The illustration features a fully opened pink rose bloom with many layered petals arranged in the rounded form. The petals are rendered in varying shades of pink, darker at the edges and lighter toward the center, with visible yellow stamens at the heart of the bloom. Several green round buds are visible to the right of the main flower. The plant displays the deeply lobed compound leaves, arranged around both the flower and the buds. Some leaves show slight yellowing or spotting, adding naturalistic detail. Four insects are depicted in flight around the flower: a large black swallow tail butterfly with white and red spots on the wing edges in the upper right; a yellow and blue butterfly with black borders in the upper left; and two small dragonflies in the upper right and far right. The painting demonstrates the fine brushwork characteristic of Chinese export art from the late 18th or early 19th century, combining traditional Chinese flower-and-bird painting style and Western botanical illustration. Previously described as “stem with flowers in bud and bloom, surrounded by butterflies and insects”. PD.281-1973 1 accession number PD.281-1973 23124 priref 23124 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23124 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/23124 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-43290 adlib-agent-43290 9e208d53-170d-3efe-a3e3-34f99563d005 Fairhaven, Henry Rogers Broughton 1973 1973 1973 bequeathed draughtsman reference agent-209819 adlib-agent-209819 9e33662d-f007-37cf-b08a-3b352982e58d Canton workshop reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century Height mm 337 Width mm 440 reference term-106241 adlib-term-106241 ad99470e-9e8a-379d-8a5c-f2ab49864f4b bodycolour reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing 1 reference object-23123 adlib-object-23123 d3633b75-676c-3842-935f-cb9815418cf8

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