IDENTIFIERS
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id:	32416
accession number:	PD.133-1973.7

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 28 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: This is a Chinese export watercolour depicting a Japanese camellia (Camellia japonica). The illustration features a branch with three fully opened blooms in varying shades of coral-red to deep crimson, each displaying the characteristic cup-shaped form of camellia flowers with prominent golden-yellow stamens at their centers. The leaves are arranged alternately along the green stems and vary in size and orientation. Several unopened buds are visible among the branches. A Chinese inscription at the lower left corner reads “dan chahua丹茶花”, camellia. The painting demonstrates the fine brushwork characteristic of Chinese export art from the late 18th or early 19th century, combining traditional Chinese flower-and-bird painting style and Western botanical illustration.
title:	drawing

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
collection:	Broughton Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32416


SUBJECTS
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plant
plant



TECHNIQUES
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watercolour and some bodycolour on thin paper, backed with second sheet, and both tipped in on the album sheet
watercolour

CATEGORIES
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category: drawing

DATING
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culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Canton workshop