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Nine fenghuang birds worshipping the sun; unknown artist; Chinese; nianhua New Year's picture, early 20th century, Beijing; graphic print; height 48.5 cm, width 48 cm; fenghuang iconography., A square paper sheet with a colorful printed design featuring a central circular scene surrounded by decorative borders; the sheet shows a background of off-white with a gray outer margin and the printed design uses bright red, teal, purple, yellow, green, and touches of black; the central circle contains stylized figures and animals in red, yellow, purple, and teal around a small architectural structure with layered roof elements in red and yellow; large red floral shapes and green leaves appear at the corners and along the borders, with several smaller floral motifs and curved decorative elements in teal, purple, yellow, and red filling the surrounding areas; slender vertical panels with small humanlike figures and decorative patterns appear along the left and right edges inside the frame, rendered in purple, red, yellow, and black; the top border includes a row of rounded medallions with bold red shapes against yellow backgrounds set on a purple band, while the outermost frame shows a repeating pattern of small ovoid shapes and abstract motifs in teal, purple, red, and yellow; overall the image has a hand-printed look with visible ink outlines in black and slight irregularities at the paper edges.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A20_216

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42.7Mo (4.2Mo) / 30.3cm x 35.3cm / 3582 x 4164 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Nine fenghuang birds worshipping sun unknown artist Chinese nianhua New Year's picture early 20th century Beijing graphic print height 48.5 cm width 48 cm fenghuang iconography square paper sheet colorful printed design featuring central circular scene surrounded decorative borders sheet background off-white gray outer margin printed design uses bright red teal purple yellow green touches black central circle contains stylized figures animals red small architectural structure layered roof elements large floral shapes green leaves corners borders several smaller floral motifs curved decorative elements red filling surrounding areas slender vertical panels small humanlike figures decorative patterns left right edges inside frame rendered top border includes row rounded medallions bold shapes yellow backgrounds set purple band outermost frame repeating pattern small ovoid shapes abstract motifs image hand-printed look visible ink outlines slight irregularities paper edges.