Mu xiang hua
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Mu xiang hua is a 1780 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows three branches of a flowering plant with bright yellow-orange blossoms and dark green leaves. The branches twist naturally, with some flowers open and others still in bud. The background is a soft, pale green, suggesting a garden or field with a hint of grass and a distant tree. The artist focused on the flowers’ delicate petals and the way light hits them. The brushwork is smooth, with careful attention to the flowers’ shapes and the leaves’ texture. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A rectangular watercolour painting from around 1780, rendered in subdued hues, portrays a tall plant with elongated green leaves and dense clusters of yellow-orange flowers featuring broad petals, likely identified as *mu xiang hua*. Acquired from E. Parsons, the work was formally accessioned into the collection in 1889, as recorded in the Asia Department registers during a 2022 provenance research initiative.
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