Description: Immortal Blossoms of an Eternal Spring (仙萼長春圖) Album leaf, ink and colors on silk, hand-painted, with seals of its formal collectors. 33.3 x 27.8 cm Lang Shining/Giuseppe Castiglione (郎世寧, 1688-1766), Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) This album of sixteen leaves includes the following flowers, fruit, or plants: tree peony, peach blossom, herbaceous peony, flowering crabapple and magnolia, corn poppy and fringed iris, yellow prickly rose, carnation, cherry, poppy, purple and white lilacs, tiger lily and peony blossom, bamboo and morning glory, lotus and arrowhead, pea blossom and millet, cockscomb, and chrysanthemum. Eight of the leaves also include birds, the contents corresponding to a record of a painting entitled "Album of Flowers" by Giuseppe Castiglione in Third Edition of Treasured Boxes from the Stone Moat, one of the Qing court catalogs.