Fragrant glorybower (clerodendrum fragrans), chou mo li
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Fragrant glorybower (clerodendrum fragrans), chou mo li is a 1780 paint by Unknown, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting features a flowering plant with green leaves and pink and white blooms. The plant is depicted in a natural setting, with a few branches and leaves extending from the main stem. The painting is done in a realistic style, with attention to detail in the depiction of the plant's texture and color. The artist has used a range of colors to capture the subtleties of the plant's appearance. If you're interested in learning more about this style of painting, you might want to explore the Romanticism movement.
A rectangular watercolour painting from 1780 depicts the fragrant glorybower, showing broadly oval leaves up to six inches long with pointed tips, rounded bases, and slightly toothed or entire margins, hairy beneath and attached by long stalks. The flowers, arranged in dense clusters at branch tips, are white or faintly pink with a slender tube and rounded lobes, their stamens prominently protruding; the calyx is hairy with five pointed segments. The work was acquired from E. Parsons in 1889 and is recorded in the Asia Department registers as part of a 2022 provenance research project. The…
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