Admonitions to the Imperial Censors (Yushi zhen 御史箴)

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Admonitions to the Imperial Censors (Yushi zhen 御史箴),
1299

Xianyu Shu 鮮于樞, ca. 1257–1302

Chinese

Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368

1998-49

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Title

Admonitions to the Imperial Censors (Yushi zhen 御史箴)

Dates

1299

Maker

Xianyu Shu 鮮于樞

Medium

Handscroll; ink on paper

Dimensions

Painting: 50.1 x 409.6 cm. (19 3/4 x 161 1/4 in.) Colophon: 50.1 x 115.2 cm. (19 3/4 x 45 3/8 in.) Mount: h. 51.2 cm. (20 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951

Object Number

1998-49

Place Made

Asia, China

Inscription

Front inscription: Zhang Daqian (1899 - 1983), dated 1969 For colophons, see The Embodied Image.

Marks/Labels/Seals

Artist, “Xianyu” 鮮于, round relief Artist, “Boji yinzhang” 伯幾印章, tall rectangular intaglio Artist, ??? square relief

Culture

Chinese

Period

Yüan

Type

paintings, scroll paintings, handscrolls, calligraphy (visual work), calligraphy (writing)

Materials

paper (fiber product), ink

Subject

censors

– Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), sold to John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ).
–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

"The checklist of the John B. Elliott Bequest," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 61 (2002): p. 49-99.
, p. 62

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Chinese, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), Xianyu Shu 鮮于樞 (ca. 1257–1302), Admonitions to the Imperial Censors (Yushi zhen 御史箴), 1299. Handscroll; ink on paper; 50.1 x 409.6 cm (Painting), 50.1 x 115.2 cm (Colophon), 51.2 cm (mount). Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 (1998-49)
Princeton University Art Museum.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/36359

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