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Hand-colored etching of blue flowers, pink buds, twisting brown stems and dark red fruits on a pale background.

Flower Boughs, from "Recueil de Differentes Fleurs de Fantaisie Dans le Goût Chinois"

A hand-colored etching of fantastical flowers and leafy boughs on a pale ground. Slate-blue blossoms with yellow centers rise above twisting brown stems, with pink-tipped buds, sprays of small leaves, and three dark red fruits at right.

Artist
Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Date
1760
Medium
Etching on paper
Source
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
Size
4000 × 3064 px
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Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1760).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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