IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 32417 accession number: PD.133-1973.8 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 28 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: This is a Chinese export watercolour depicting Aglaia odorata, commonly known as Chinese perfume plant or mock lemon. The illustration features the plant's characteristic compound inflorescences composed of numerous tiny golden-yellow flowers arranged in radiating clusters. These flower heads emerge from the leaf axils on slender green stems, showing the typical umbel-like formation. The dark green leaves are arranged alternately along the green stems and have parallel venation. Several flower clusters are shown in different stages of development, from tight buds to fully opened sprays. A Chinese inscription at the lower left corner reads “baizhu lanhua 白珠蘭花”, Chinese perfume plant. 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 --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints collection: Broughton Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32417 SUBJECTS ------------------- plant plant TECHNIQUES ---------- watercolour and some bodycolour on thin paper, backed with second sheet, and both tipped in on the album sheet watercolour CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Canton workshop DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 307 dimension: Width units: mm value: 389