One Hundred Flowers
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White plum blossoms, red camellias, white magnolias, and pink peonies bloom across a warm gold silk ground, their branches crossing and intertwining along the lower portion of the composition. The upper half is open, the bare silk serving as sky or empty space, with a small bird nearly hidden among the plum branches at center. The flowers are painted in the gongbi (meticulous) style, each petal and leaf carefully rendered in mineral pigments. This is a detail from a Chinese scroll painting of the type known as "one hundred flowers," a genre that brings together blossoms from different seasons into a single, impossible garden.