Cinnabar Lotus
Artist
Chang Dai-chien
(Zhang Daqian; Chinese, 1899 - 1983)
Date1974
MaterialsInk and colors on paper
DimensionsH. 29 in x W. 21 in, H. 73.7 cm x W. 53.3 cm (image)
Credit LineBequest of Marjorie Walter Bissinger
Object number2010.174
DepartmentChinese Art
ClassificationsPrints And Drawings
On View
Not on viewSigned“大千唯印大幸”（朱文方印）、“環蓽盦”（朱文長方）、“大千三千”（朱文方印）。
Daqian wei yin daxin (square relief), Huanbi’an (rectangle relief), Daqian sanqian (square relief).
Inscribed“爰翁甲寅九月寫。‘〈洛陽伽藍記〉云：綠蘋浮池，朱荷出水。不言紅蓮，而曰朱荷者，所以別於尋常也。’同月十二日又記。”
Painted by the old man Yuan in the ninth lunar month of the jiayin year (1974). ‘A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang says: green duckweeds floating on the pond, and cinnabar lotus leaping out of water. Because its flowers differ from the ordinary, it is not called red lotus but cinnabar lotus.’ (I) inscribed again on the twelfth day of the same month.
Subject
- lotus
