No. 20 of 108 · A Hundred Worlds
Fruit Bowl and Garden Rock
Pictures by Hu Zhengyan
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A celadon bowl heaped with ripe fruit sits beside a weathered garden rock on a red stand, from Hu Zhengyan's Ten Bamboo Studio, printed in colour in Nanjing in 1633. These were the things a Chinese scholar set out in his study to welcome a guest, a quiet gesture of hospitality. For someone whose welcome you treasure.
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From the Ten Bamboo Studio, a book printed in colour in 1633 / FRUIT BOWL AND GARDEN ROCK / Fruit · Nanjing, 1633 / A bowl of fruit beside a garden rock on a stand: the things a scholar set out in his study to welcome a guest.
