IDENTIFIERS
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id:	32425
accession number:	PD.133-1973.16

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 an azalea (Rhododendron species). The illustration features flowering branches with red blooms. The flowers have the distinctive funnel-shaped form typical of azaleas, with five broad petals that flare outward from a narrow tube, and prominent long stamens extending out. The composition shows flowers in various stages of development, from tight elongated buds to fully opened blossoms. The leaves show the typical clustering around the flower clusters and scattered arrangement along the woody stems. A Chinese inscription at the lower right corner reads “dujuanhua 杜鵑花”, azalea. 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/32425


SUBJECTS
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plant
plant



TECHNIQUES
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watercolour and some bodycolour heightened with white 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

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 312

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 388