Dwarf Potted Trees in Paintings, Scrolls
and Woodblock Prints
 

CHINA  -- THE PORTRAYALS


The images presented here are done so in the interests of education.  The footnote numbers below the images correspond to the appropriate footnotes on the text pages where the full image is described.  Those footnotes not included here belong to images which either are too small to do justice to the subject or have not yet been gotten.  Please note that as most of the portrayals depict these magical miniature landscapes as part of a larger human scene, the images cannot always be completely separated from the surrounding figures or background.

This Page Last Updated May 6, 2001


From  China -- Up to the SONG DYNASTY

 Liben, mid-7th cent. [1]
 c.706 (detail) [2]
 c.706  (color) [2]
 c.706  [2]

From  China -- SONG through MING DYNASTIES
Zhang Zeduan, late 11th-early 12th cent. [1]
Chao Meng-chien, 13th cent. [2]
 Li Shixing, early 14th cent. [3]
 Wang Wei, late 15th cent. [5]
 Qiu Ying, early 16th cent. [6]
Qiu Ying, early 16th cent. [7]
 Qiu Ying, early 16th cent. [7]
 1637 [9]

From  CHINA -- QING DYNASTY
 
Ye Fang-lin, 1743 [2]
 Saucer, 1730-40 [3]
Tea Bowl, c.1750 [4]
  
 Ming Chun, late 18th cent. [5]
Qian Long, late 18th cent. [6]
 Qian Long, late 18th cent. [6]
 1788 [7]
Chin Ting-piao, Qing [8]
 gouache, early 19th cent. [10]
 gouache, c.1810 [12]
 oil on canvas, c. 1835 [14]
 woodcut, end of 19th cent. [17]
Wu Yu-ji, late 19th cent. [18]
 Wu Yu-ji, late 19th cent. [19]
 Wu Yu-ji, late 19th cent. [20]

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