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Manuscript of Poems,
1559
Sheng Shitai 盛時泰, 16th century
Chinese
Ming dynasty, 1368–1644
1998-72
Information
Title
Manuscript of Poems
Dates
1559
Maker
Medium
Album of 23 leaves (fu); ink on ruled paper; plus 3 leaves (fu) of colophons; ink on ruled paper
Dimensions
Calligraphy (each): ca. 30.5 x ca. 17.5 cm. (12 x 6 7/8 in.)
Album: 39 x 23.7 x 3 cm. (15 3/8 x 9 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Cloth case: 44 x 28 x 6.5 cm. (17 5/16 x 11 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-72
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed "Yunpu Sheng Shitai" 雲浦時泰
Inscription
dated 1559
Seals: Artist's – "Sheng shih Chung-chiao" square relief (below signature)
Collectors'- (3) and round relief seals (2) on joints
Colophons: Ch'en Yü (Ch'ing dyn.), t. Ku-yü [see Yü Chien-hua ed., Chung-kuo mei-shu-chia jen-ming tz'u-tien (Shanghai: Jen-min mei-shu ch'u-pan-she, 1981), p. 1008].
Signed, "Ch'en Yü"; dated, Ch'ung-chen reign, wu-yin year (1638)
Artist's seals (3) Ma Chi-[ch'i] (unidentified)
Signed; dated, unknown reign, kuei-hai year, 12th moon, 19th day
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist, "Sheng shi Zhongjiao" 盛氏仲交, square relief, below signature
Collectors', (3) and round relief seals (2) on joints
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.
