“Red Blossoming Plum”
Fan painting, ink and color on paper
15.4 x 49.2 cm. (6 x 19 3/8 in.)
“Bamboo and Rock”
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
195.5 x 96.3 cm. (76 3/4 x 37 7/8 in.)
Inscription:
“Ice and frost still cover them
with icy mist on their joints;
Rain and mist tend to moisten
the branches where the phoenix perches.
Jade-green stands up by the forest pavilion,
as shoots wait to emerge from their sheath,
and see for a thousand feet,
brushing against the spreading clouds.
Cheng Chih-tung from Chi-shan.
Artist’s seals:
Ch’ing-yu chai (“Study of Pure Jade”); Cheng Chih-tung yin; Ch’u-fei (“expunging what is wrong”)
(see write up below)
“Mid-autumn Landscape” 1766
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
64.4 x 31.6 cm. (25 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
Inscription:
“During the mid-autumn month of the year 1766, painted by Chu Wen-chen.”
Artist’s seals:
Chu Chen chih-yin; Ch’ing-lei shu-hua
(see write up below)
“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
(see write up below)
“Moonlight over the Cliffs of Chiao (Island)”
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
170 x 44.5 cm. (66 7/8 x 17 1/2 in.)
Inscription:
“‘Moonlight over the Cliffs of Chiao (Island).’
On the Yangtze River the wind and waves are calm,
within the temple on Chiao Mountain the evening bells sound;
Cooking smoke has already ceased and the lamp wicks lowered,
the mountain monks rise late to view the moon’s brightness.
P’an Ssu-mu, called Ch’iao-lu.”
Artist’s seals:
Yu-lan-kuan yin (“Seal of the Hall of Jade Orchids”); Ch’iao-lu (“Companion to Woodcutters”); Mao-sung ch’ing-ch’uan (“Pure spring by luxuriant pines”)
(see write up below)
“Beautiful Lady”
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
67.2 x 23.1 cm. (26 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
Inscription:
“Light mist and heavy clouds—
melancholy the long dreary day;
Intelligent minds cast the golden animal (i.e. incense burner)
for this excellent festival.
Again there is the Double-Ninth,
and on my jade pillow within sheer silk screen,
in mid-night coolness begins to penetrate.
Le-ju recorded a poem by a Sung person.”
Artist’s seal:
Ch’en P’eng
(see write up below)
“Landscape” 1868
Hanging scroll, ink on gold-sprinkled paper
126.3 x 46 cm. (49 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
Inscription:
“Mountain rain sprinkles the valley trees,
a solitary village lies within the moist clouds;
Misty shadows become obscure and indistinct,
at the valley entrance evening mist arises.
Painted during the ninth lunar month, fall of the seventh year of the T’ung-chih
reign era in response to a request from Master Kung-shou by Yu-hu Tao-jen,
‘Taoist of the Jade Vase,’ Ch’en Tzu-ch’ing.”
Artist’s seal:
Yu-hu (“Jade Vase”)
(see write up below)
“Landscape”
Hanging scroll, ink and color silk
163 x 52 cm. (64 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
Inscription:
“Autumn is high upon the old trees,
with leaves stripped off and fallen into the water;
The sun is gone over the range of peaks,
which now are obscured by mist.
In response to the elegant request of Yujyo, my elder brother in humaneness,
and for his judgment, Hu T’ieh-mei painted this at a guest house in Japan.”
Artist’s seals:
Hu Chang hsin-yin; T’ieh-mei hua-yin
(see write up below)