Platycodon Grandiflorum, "Kikyo"

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Platycodon Grandiflorum, "Kikyo"

Alfred Parsons (1847-1920)

Price

£650

Signed

Signed with monogram and inscribed with title
Inscribed 'notes in Japan IV' below mount

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

7 x 4 inches

Illustrated

Alfred Parsons, Notes In Japan, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896, page 80;
Alfred Parsons, 'The Time of the Lotus', Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1894, page 53

Exhibited

'Chris Beetles Summer Show 2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-September 2025, no 67

In Notes in Japan, the Platycodon Grandiflorum is also referred to by Alfred Parsons as a purple-blue campanula. He comes across it several times while in Japan, notably growing on the slopes near Yoshida.

The work by Totosha Harris includes it as one of ‘The Seven Beautiful Flowers of Late Summer’, as number six – ‘Kiku’.