CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The provenance of the painting is unknown. It was found in the Department of Anthropology object collections and transferred to the National ...

As History Facts explained, you can trace the fruit's beginnings back to the Himalayas some 8 million years ago. From there, orange trees sprouted up through the Indian subcontinent and China.

Goh admires and enjoys the work, but also points out that everything in the painting is a fruit of Empire. Goh is half South Asian Chinese and half Northern Irish British, now based in Edinburgh.

In 2012, reader Erica wrote in with a question about oranges. Is the fruit named for its color, or is the color named for the fruit? The answer to this question is actually pretty simple: Orange ...

The story of the orange, properly speaking, begins in the Himalayas, 8 million years ago. Born of pomelos and mandarins, the hybrid fruit eventually diffused across Asia, becoming particularly ...