Cabbages and Butterflies
In China, the butterfly can be a symbol of happiness in marriage. This comes from a story told by the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi [Chuang-tzu] in which a young student chases a butterfly into the garden of a retired official. There, he sees the official's daughter and is so ta...
Drawing
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id
22764
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| contentType |
contentType
drawing
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 163]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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| style |
style
Piling [P'i-ling] School
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| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.25_Fnt_DD_T07.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.25 |
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Medium
ink and color on silk
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