100 Years of Harmony

This painting features white calla lilies and two butterflies (one brown and the other yellow).

The Chinese title is 百年好合 which literally translates as, "100 years good union" This phrase is commonly used when offering good wishes to newly-married couples. This phrase represents a wish that the couple have 100 years of happy marriage together.

The characters after that read, 丁酉年 which is an ancient way to indicate this was painted in 2017. The artist signed it, 袁野畫, or "Yuan Ye Painted" (畫 is a character that in this context means, "painted by").

Materials used are watercolors on handmade xuan paper. The painting was then mounted with a copper-brown-colored silk brocade matting/border.

About the Artist:

This was hand painted by (Yuan Ye) who lives near Guilin in Southern China. Most of his paintings feature fish which are his specialty.