“Scholar and Servant with
Lute beneath Pines”
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
97 x 43.5 cm. (38 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
Japanese box inscription:
attributing the painting to Ma Lin
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“Landscapes with Figures”
Pair of hanging scrolls, ink on silk
Each scroll 127 x 61 cm. (50 x 24 in.)
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“Fishing on Pine Stream” 1361
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
107.5 x 64 cm. (42 3/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
Artist’s inscription:
“’Fishing on Pine Stream.’ During the second day of the eighth lunar month of the twenty-first year of the Chih-cheng reign-era (1361), painted by Wang Meng, the Recluse of Yellow-crane Mountain.”
Artist’s seal:
Wang Meng chih yin
Collector’s seals:
Hua-hua Chai; Ch’ing-sen-ko Shu-hua yin; Ho Shih Yuan-lang (seal of Ho Liang-chun, 1506-1573); Jung-chung Chen-ts’ang Shu-hua chih chang
Published:
I-shu Ts’ung-pien, Shanghai,
1908-10, vol. 12;
Harada Bizan: Nihon Genzai Shina Meiga Mokuroku, Tokyo, 1938, p. 97;
Oswald Siren: Chinese Painting, New York, 1956, volume 7, p. 137 (“A”);
James Cahill: An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Painting, Berkeley, 1980, p. 339.
Recent provenance:
Obata Collection, Tokyo
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“T’ao Yuan-ming” 1715
Fan, ink and color on paper
17.5 x 54 cm. (6 7/8 x 21 1/4 in.)
Inscription:
“Picking chrysanthemums at
the Eastern Fence, he gazes longingly
at South Mountain.
Painted during the new autumn of the year
1715 by Yang Chin, called Hsi-t’ing.”
Artist’s seals:
Yang Chin; Chia-shen (1644)
Published:
Chiao-chieh-chai ts’ang Ming-Ch’ing Shan-mien Shu-hua Chi, Shanghai, 2009, p. 113.
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“Summer Landscape”
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
102.8 x 27.1 cm. (40 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)
Inscription:
“Gyokuran.”
Artist’s seal:
Gyokuran
Published:
Felice Fischer with Kyōko Kinoshita: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007, fig. 23, p. 47.
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“Playing the Ch’in beneath Pines; Writing on Stone Cliff”
Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on paper
Each 135 x 57 cm. (53 1/8 x 22 in.)
Inscriptions:
right scroll: “The brush tip manifests orchids and brings forth the grass.”
left scroll: “From the strings fragrant breezes enter the garden pines. Kashō.”
Artist’s seals:
Zenshin Sōma Houkyūkō (“In a Former Life I was the Horse Connoisseur Fang Chiu-kao”); Ike Mumei In; Kashō (“Woodcutter in Haze”); Sonsei (“In Accord with Life”); Sangaku Dōja (“Taoist of the Three Peaks [of Fuji, Tateyama, and Hakusan]”)
Box inscription:
“A pair of works painted and inscribed by Ike Kashō: ‘Inscribing Poetry on the Stone Cliff’ and ‘Playing the Ch’in beneath Pines.’ Written by Murata Kōkoku (1831-1912) at age seventy-eight (i.e. in 1908).”
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“Chung K’uei Traveling” 1802
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
133.5 x 55.3 cm. (52 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Inscription:
“On an auspicious day in early summer of the year 1802 during the Chia-ch’ing reign-era, painted by Hsiao-ch’uan.”
Artist’s seals:
Hsiao-ch’uan; Chiang Hsun han-mo
Collector’s seal:
Shen Wu shen-ting
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“Bamboo and Rock” 1838
Hanging scroll, ink on silk
135 x 51 cm. (53 1/4 x 20 in.)
Inscription:
“Painted during the eighth lunar month of the year 1838 by Yamamoto (Shin)-ryō, called Baiitsu.”
Artist’s seals:
Yamamoto Ryō; Meikeifu
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