Help needed on art picture/material

[Adam Lisik]

Hi All,

I am not too sure if this is Chinese but could you tell me what it is if someone knows?

Thanks

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[aifeluna]

do you have larger pics?

[xiaocai]

Could be a 百子图. I also think bigger photos may be more helpful.

[Adam Lisik]

Ill post bigger picture tonight, thanks for above link it looks similar but what could it be called in english ?

[edelweis]

百子圖 = 百子图 = baizitu = picture of 100 kids.

link to google books Encyclopedia of play in today's society, Volume 1

See paragraph "Play Cultures as Boyhood Culture"

The theme of boys playing in a garden was an established subject in the paintings of China's Song dinasty...

Link to paper by Annika Pissin

A different representation of ideal childhood could be observed in the

picture of one hundred children, baizitu (百子圖). No such painting has been

preserved from the Tang dynasty, and it probably was not yet painted as

commonly as it would be from the Song onward.Yet, Zhou Yuwen quotes a

text from the Song which reports the common Tang custom of using “One

Hundred Sons” screens during marriage rites. What is more, one of the earliest

depictions of an individually playing child can be found on a stoneware ewer

that dates from the ninth century which shows a boy carrying a lotus leaf. The

motive is assumed to be a copy from depictions of Roman children, imported via

the silk route, and it can also be found among the hundred-playing-sons motif.

Nevertheless, the reason for this depiction was not to focus on the playing of the

child with the plant, but on the symbolic meaning of fertility, “the combination

of plants and boys, originally borrowed from the West, worked very well in

China as fertility symbols.”

Link to a British Museum example of Baizitu