New Year Offerings by Li Shan. An 18th-century Chinese ink and wash painting featuring a basket of persimmons and pine branches above a ceramic brazier with a teapot.

New Year Offerings

Li Shan

1736 · Medium Not Listed

An elegant 1736 Chinese ink wash painting by Li Shan, capturing traditional ceremonial offerings with fluid, expressive brushwork and a serene scholarly atmosphere.

$243

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Where it works

An airy, quiet work with warm, lived-in color — keeps the wall feeling open.

Often works in
Bedroom · Living Room · Dining Room
Placement
Works well where the room needs a lighter vertical note
Walls
Benefits from a wall with more tonal contrast
Color notes
Soft gray

About the piece

Created in 1736 by Li Shan, one of the famous Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, this work exemplifies the artist's spontaneous and unrestrained approach to traditional subjects. The composition features a rustic woven basket filled with persimmons alongside pine and plum blossoms—symbols of longevity and winter resilience—resting above a quiet domestic scene of a teapot warming on a charcoal brazier. The masterful use of ink tonality and soft color washes creates a contemplative, restful presence for any interior.