No. 12 of 108 · A Hundred Worlds
Grapes
Pictures by Hu Zhengyan
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A sprig of grapevine with soft peach bunches and sage-green leaves, from Hu Zhengyan's Ten Bamboo Studio, printed in colour in Nanjing in 1633. In Chinese pictures, heavy bunches of grapes are a wish for plenty, and the pale, watercolour-like fruit here was printed rather than painted. For someone you wish an abundant year.
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From the Ten Bamboo Studio, a book printed in colour in 1633 / GRAPES / Fruit · Nanjing, 1633 / Grapes grow in heavy bunches, so in Chinese pictures they wish for plenty. Note the pale, almost watercolour bunches: printed, not painted.
