{"product_id":"emperor-huizong-attributed-five-colored-parakeet-on-a-blossoming-apricot-tree-chinese-painting-art-print","title":"Emperor Huizong (attributed) — Five-colored Parakeet on a Blossoming Apricot Tree | Chinese Painting Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA single parakeet with a black cap, red face and barred red throat sits on a slender apricot branch, its green body and long tail angled down to the right. White blossoms open in clusters along bare twigs that rise from the lower left, some still in bud. The ground is plain ochre silk. Large red collectors' seals sit in both upper corners, and at the right edge a column of brushed characters ends in a bold cipher signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scroll is dated to the 1110s, in the middle of Huizong's reign (1100–1126) as emperor of the Northern Song. Birds and flowers were the main subjects of his painting, and this handscroll in ink and colour on silk, about 1.25 metres long, is one of the works by which that side of his art is known. A curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which bought it through the Maria Antoinette Evans Fund, has said the bird was painted freehand, without an underdrawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: handscroll, ink and colour on silk, Northern Song dynasty, 1110s; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmperor Huizong (1082–1135), born Zhao Ji, was the eighth emperor of the Song dynasty, reigning from 1100 until his abdication in 1126. A painter, poet, calligrapher and musician, he built an imperial collection of more than 6,000 paintings, gathered painters at a court painting academy and invented the Slender Gold style of calligraphy. Paintings in the polished bird-and-flower and figure manner of his court, among them Five-Coloured Parakeet on a Blossoming Apricot Tree and Listening to the Qin, have long been associated with his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach print is made to our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/archival-museum-standards\"\u003eArchival Museum Standards\u003c\/a\u003e: a 12-ink giclée, printed to order. Unframed prints are made on Hahnemühle German Etching, a 310gsm matte fine-art paper. Framed prints arrive in a handmade solid-wood frame with low-reflection glazing, ready to hang. 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