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"Guitian fu" by Zhang Pingzi
Dong Qichang 董其昌, attributed, 1555–1636
Chinese
1998-103
More Context
Didactics
Text – 1. Transcription of “Guitian fu” by Zhang Heng (Zhang Pingzi; Later Han). In Xiao Tong, Zhaoming Wen xuan (Zhenzhou: Zhongzhou guji chubanshehe, 1990), 15/206-207. [xerox in file] Wrapper – Inscribed later by Ho T’ai, 1862
Information
Title
"Guitian fu" by Zhang Pingzi
Maker
Dong Qichang 董其昌 , attributed
Medium
Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 31.9 x 646.2 cm. (12 9/16 x 254 7/16 in.)
Mount: 33 cm. (13 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-103
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed "Dong Qichang"
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist’s – (note the following three seals are not found in Zhongguo shuhua jia yin jian kuan zhi)
“Xuanshangzhai” 玄賞齋, vertical rectangular yin (front, top)
“Dong Qichang yin” 董其昌印, square yin (end, left of signature, top)
“Xuanzai” 玄宰, square yang (end, left of signature, bottom)
Collectors’ – (not noted)
On his seals, see Zhongguo shuhuajia yin jian kuan zhi 中國書畫家印鑑款識 (Shanghai: Wenwu chubanshe, 1987), pp. 1304–13.
Culture
Materials
–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.
