Buddha’s Hand Fruit (Citrus medica ‘Helicteroides’), from Ten Bamboo Studio collection of calligraphy and painting, c.1633 Ink and colour on paper, 25 × 27 cm / 93⁄4 × 101⁄2 in British Museum, LondonThis coloured woodblock print from seventeenth-century China shows the fine outline of the curiously shaped yellow fruits of fo-shou or Buddha’s hand, with their characteristic white pitting and a gradation of green on the extremities or ‘fingers’ of the fruit. This illustration by Gao You comes from one of the earliest known picture collections in China to be printed in colour. Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum/Phaidon

Source: The Guardian October 10, 2016 10:30 UTC