1
Anonymous (12th century) 無款
“Scholar in Spring Garden”
Fan painting, ink and color on silk
26.2 x 28.0 cm. (10 3/8 x 11 in.)
2Yang Pu-chih (1097-1169), attributed
Yang Pu-chih (1097-1169), attributed
楊補之
“Branch of Blossoming Plum”
Hanging scroll, ink on silk
135.8 x 78.3 cm. (53 1/2 x 30 3/4 in.)
Seals:
Three, along left border, all illegible
Recent provenance:
Date collection, Sendai; Yamanaka Sadajiro collection
Published:
Dai Ni kai Sendai Dateke Gozohin Nyusatsu (“Second Sale of objects collected by Date of Sendai”), Tokyo Bijutsu Club, August, 1930, cat. 40.
(see write up below)
3
Anonymous (12th-13th century) 無款
“Three Ducks on Riverbank”
Hanging scroll, ink on silk
158 x 92.8 cm. (62 1/4 x 36 5/8 in.)
Inscription:
“Picturing and painting in the presence of the Emperor, painted by ______.”
Artist’s seals:
One, illegible
(see write up below)
4
Anonymous (13th century) 無款
“Three Sparrows on Blossoming Plum”
Fan painting, ink and color on silk
27.8 x 20.3 cm. (11 x 8 in.)
Collector’s seals:
Ch’en-p’u yin; Chen-chai,
(see write up below)
5
K’o-shan (late-13th-14th century) 柯山
Bamboo and a Garden Rock
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
64 x 30.7 cm. (25 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Artist’s seals:
K’o-shan and one other, illegible
Recent provenance:
Yabumoto Soshiro, Tokyo (1965); Setsu Gatodo, Tokyo
Recorded:
James Cahill: An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings, Berkeley, 1980, p. 329 (“…seal reading K’o-shan may be the artist’s.”)
(see write up below)
6
Ku Yen (early 17th century) 顧言
“Dwellings of the Immortals” 1618
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
167.2 x 49.9 cm. (65 7/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
Inscription:
“During the ninth lunar month, autumn of the year 1618, painted after ‘Dwellings of the Immortals’ by Ku Yen, the Old Farmer.”
Artist’s seals:
Li Yen; Lao-nung
(see write up below)
7Cheng P’ei (active third decade of the18th century)
Cheng P’ei (active third decade of the18th century)
鄭培
“Four Herons in Snow”
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
111.3 x 49.2 cm. (43 7/8 x 19 3/8 in.)
Inscription (based on a poem by Hsiao Ying-shih (708-759):
“Birds! Birds!
Luxuriant seagulls and herons,
floating in the rapids, playing on a sandbar,
without let they are pure and white.
Cheng Wei-p’ei.”
Artist’s seals:
Cheng Wei-p’ei yin; Shan-ju
(see write up below)
8
Ts’ai Chia (1686-ca. 1756) 蔡嘉
“Visiting Friend in Autumn Mountains”
Hanging scroll, ink on color on paper
111 x 39 cm. (43 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.)
Inscription:
“The entire mountain is devoid of trees, the tranquil distances glorious, the solitary figure faces forward, not thinking about the house ahead; Right now it seems as if we have had the fermentation of Hsin-feng, letting loose a long yell, completely intoxicated we return home.
Ts’ai Chia, called Chu-fang Lao-min.”
Artist’s seals:
Chien; T’ang
Published:
Ming-jen Shu-hua Chi, Shanghai, 1922, vol. 15.
(see write up below)