Diameter: 7.5 cm. (3 in.)
Height: 5.5 cm. (2 1/8 in.)
Late Western to Eastern Zhou period
西周晚-東周期
8th-5th century B.C.
Lengths: 17.8 to 24.8 cm. (7 to 9 3/4 in.)
Dian Kingdom, Yunnan 滇國 云南
Western Han period 西漢期
3rd-1st century B.C.
Length: 12.0 cm. (4 3/4 in.)
Width: 6.7 cm. (2 5/8 in.)
Dian kingdom, Yunnan 滇國 云南
Western Han period 西漢期
3nd-1st century B.C.
Length of Ox: 22.3 cm. (8 3/4 in.)
Length of Cart: 15.2 cm. (6 in.)
Early Tang dynasty 唐早朝
7th century A.D.
Length: 8.5 cm. (3 3/8 in.)
Height: 6.5 cm. (2 5/8 in.)
Yuan dynasty 元朝
13th-14th century A.D.
Heights from 4.5 cm. (1 3/4 in.)
to 13.0 cm. (5 1/8 in)
Yuan dynasty 元朝
Late 13th-14th century A.D.
“Ox in Landscape”
野牛圖
Hanging scroll, ink on silk
63.4 x 37.6 cm. (25 x 14 7/8 in.)
Published:
Choshunkaku Zohin Tenran Zuroku, Kobe, 1936, pl. 27;
Harada Bizan, compiler: Nihon genzai Shina meiga mokuroku, Tokyo, 1938, p. 113;
Choshunkaku Kansho (“Catalogue of the Kawasaki Collection”) (Tokyo: Kokka-sha, 1944), vol. 4, pl. 24;
James Cahill: An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings (Berkeley: University of California, 1980), p. 240.
Certificate of authenticity:
Written by Kano Masanobu (1823-1880) in 1861
Recent provenance:
Baron Kawasaki Shuzo (1836-1912), Kobe
“Daoist and Buffalo”
道士水牛図
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
25.0 x 33.0 cm. (9 7/8 x 13 in.)
Collector’s seal:
Tayasu-fu Geido-in (“Seal of the Art Hall of the Tayasu fief”), collection seal of the
Tayasu branch of the Tokugawa clan, one of three in the main line.
Published:
Karo Collection Catalogue, Osaka, Tenroku Book Press, p. 2;
Kobe Kawasaki Collection Catalogue, Osaka, Osaka Art Association, 1928;
Choshunkaku Kansho, vol. 4, Tokyo, Kokka, 1944, no. 32;
James Cahill: An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings, Berkeley, 1980, p. 83 (“Late Sung or Yuan, unrelated to Fan K’uan”).
Recent provenance:
Baron Kawasaki Shuzo (1836-1912), Kobe;
Tokugawa clan, Tayasu branch (18th-19th century)