"Eighteen Scholars"
(Set of four, issued August 20, 1984)
Of historical importance because these are
based on the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1126) hanging scroll by that
name
and thus show what potted landscapes were like at that time.
(actual area inside white borders: 28 mm x 47 mm)
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The penjing in the lower left is possibly a double-layered juniper in a light blue low, long tray. At picture's edge is a palm penjing on a raised stand. |
The tree in the lower right looks like a small pine in a round jade-colored pot on a low rectangular table. This is next to a cream-colored stand holding a tall stone on which is growing a brownish-yellow-leafed plant. |
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The tree in the lower left at picture's edge is a large pine in a long, low rectangular tray. Two smaller pentsai are just behind and to the right. All are on a low cream-colored rectangular table. (This is also in Qingquan Zhao's Penjing: Worlds of Wonderment, 1997, pg. 41; a b&w enlargement of the lower left corner of this picture can be seen on pg. 128 of Yunhua Hu's Chinese Penjing, 1987) |
The tree in the lower right is a large conifer in a cream/blue design and scalloped-edge round pot just behind a low long rockery. (A b&w copy of this picture can be seen on pg. 6 of Paul Lesniewicz's Indoor Bonsai, 1985, with the caption on pg. 7 of "Painting dating from the T'ang [sic] dynasty showing a bonsai in the foreground.") |
"Bonsai"
(Set of four, issued September 22, 1985)
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The model for this stamp is a Celtis formosana Hayata, a Formosan hackberry, although in a different pot for the stamp (which shows the tree in a round corner cream-colored rectangular pot). (Pp. 16-17) |
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"Bonsai"
(Set of four, issued July 20, 1990)
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This is a windswept two or three trunked black pine on a thin slab. (Pg. 62) |
Placed on what appears to be an antique rosewood stand, this cascading Fukien tea is planted in a hexagonal gun-metal blue pot which has side panels of white dragons. (Pp. 42-43) |
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This box tree has a wonderfully fissured large trunk. (Pg. 26) |
A beautiful forest of over fifty Chinese hackberry trees is also slab planted. (Pg. 19) |