Refined and Elegant:Masterpieces of Suzhou-style Embroidery

• 出 处: China & the World Cultural Exchange
• 发表日期: 2008年10期
• 关键词: straight branches Sweet Suzhou sweet winter Winter birds painting Dynasty

“Birds Perching at Winter Sweet” is an exquisite embroidery work. The work features a vigorous and straight trunk of the winter sweet,shone by plum blossoms and with a pair of birds perching at the branches. The embroidered work was based on one of the ink paintings by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) which is now collected in the Palace Museum in Taipei. The emperor is an

“Birds Perching at Winter Sweet ” is an exquisite embroidery work. The work features a vigorous and straight trunk of the winter sweet, shone by plum blossoms and with a pair of birds perching at the branches. The embroidered work was based on one of the ink paintings by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) which is now collected in the Palace Museum in Taipei. The emperor is an