Citation
"Kingfisher Over a Lotus Pond (Ren Yi 任頤) , 2000.233,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/176958.
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The long, narrow painted scroll shows three bunches of long, slender light green stems that come from the center of the image towards the top. The first bunch is to the left and the other two are behind and to the left. The stems have large, fanned out green and blue leaves and white flower blossoms at their tops. There is one smaller leaf lower down of the first bunch of stems. There is a small blue bird with a white chin and small, pointed beak in between the stems. The bird’s wings are outstretched and it is facing to the left. At the bottom of the stems are small, tan brush strokes that are faded. There is a short, slender painted mark with long horizontal marks coming out from it. There is small vertical Chinese writing to the bottom-left of the scroll. There is a small red symbol in both the left and right bottom corners.