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Flowers


Daisies, Lilies, Roses, Tulips and more.



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Bouquets and Flowerpots

BOUQUETS AND FLOWERPOTS

Lilies

LILIES

Lotus Flowers

LOTUS FLOWERS

Roses

ROSES

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A night heron, 1635. From the Dara Shikoh Album. ID: Add Or 3129, fol. 9 verso
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A night heron, 1635. From the Dara Shikoh Album. ID: Add Or 3129, fol. 9 verso

Indian nasturtium; stem,leaves and red flowers; seeds in lower right. From "The British herbal,containing one hundred plates of the most beautiful and scarce flowers and useful medicinal plants, which blow in the open air of Great Britain", by John Edwards, London 1770. ID: 452.h.7
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Indian nasturtium; stem,leaves and red flowers; seeds in lower right. From "The...

Spring and Summer flowers and grasses, Edo period, Japan, around 1840. Showing an aster, orchid, violet, thistle and lily. Suzuki Kitsu was a pupil of Sakai Hoitsu, the last of the three great masters of the Rimpa School, who revived the style in Edo (Tokyo). JA,JP ADD715-6 (1982.7-1.028.1-2)
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Spring and Summer flowers and grasses, Edo period, Japan, around 1840. Showing a...

Bhairavi Ragini, Indian, around 1610. A woman worships a Shiva linga in a shrine by a lake. The lake is often described in texts as being near Mount Kailash, Shiva's holy mountain. While one woman garlands the black linga with flowers, the othr chants and beats the rythm with a pair of cymbals. The pool im which the shrine is set is filled with lotuses on wich butterflies and wild birds rest. OA 1973.9-17.03
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Bhairavi Ragini, Indian, around 1610. A woman worships a Shiva linga in a shrine...

Detail of a silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks. Tang dynasty, 9th - 10th CE. Scrolling foliage with flowers and birds embroidered onto floral-figured silk, backed with plain woven cream silk. Discovered by Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Meandering scrolls of flowers and birds were used as decoration in Chinese arts for many centuries. OA MAS 857
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Detail of a silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks. Tang dynasty, 9th - 10...

Coloured woodblock print from the Ten Bamboo Studio, Nanjing, China, around 1643. ID: Or.59.a.10
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Coloured woodblock print from the Ten Bamboo Studio, Nanjing, China, around 1643...

Detail of a silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks. Tang dynasty, 9th - 10th CE. Scrolling foliage with flowers and birds embroidered onto floral-figured silk, backed with plain woven cream silk. Discovered by Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Meandering scrolls of flowers and birds were used as decoration in Chinese arts for many centuries. OA MAS 857
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Detail of a silk embroidery panel with flowers and ducks. Tang dynasty, 9th - 10...

'Fascination of Nature' from China, Yuan dynasty, 1321. The subject of this partly exposed handscroll is animals and insects feeding off each other. The colophons tell us of the deeper significance of the subject matter: that beauty and brightness of the natural world cover up the confusion and disorder caused by the fight for survival. It reflects the dilemma faced by many Chinese of the period, whether to work for the Mongols and survive, or to remain loyal to the fallen imperial dynasty and starve. OA, 1998.11-11.02
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'Fascination of Nature' from China, Yuan dynasty, 1321. The subject of this part...

A basket of flowers, Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, Suzhou, 1690. The inscription on this print identifies the Ding family as coming from [near] the Jinchang pavillion. The Jinchang pavillion was near the Chang gate, in north-western Suzhou. This is the area where the district of Taohuawu was located, which had many hundreds of print workshops in the early Qing dynasty. Each print is of an auspicious subject accompanied by a verse which is a pun on the motifs depicted.The basket is an attribute of Lan Caihe, one of the Eight Immortals. It represented a receptacle of riches and was a motif which was often used to evoke harmony. In this case, it comes with the wish that one's luck would be as fragrant and as plentiful as the flowers in the basket. The magnolia, wild apple and peony are all symbols of spring, and so this print would presumably have been used during the Chinese New Year. When the magnolia and wild apple are depicted together, it means, 'May your halls be rich and honoured'. The peony was also known as fugui hua, the flower of riches and honour. OA, 1906.11-28.3
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A basket of flowers, Ding family of the Jinchang pavillion, Suzhou, 1690. The in...

Emperor Shah Jahan. Moghul miniature, 1630. Gouache on paper, 22.2 x 13.4 cm.
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Emperor Shah Jahan. Moghul miniature, 1630. Gouache on paper, 22.2 x 13.4 cm.

Krishna and Radha dancing in the rain with three girl musicians. India; Rajasthani miniature painting, 17th century.
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Krishna and Radha dancing in the rain with three girl musicians. India; Rajastha...

View of Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park, London. Lithograph; 1882.
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View of Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park, London. Lithograph; 1882.