Currently not on view
Colophons to Zhao Mengfu's "Tianma tu",
undated
Huang Tian 黃瑱, Ming dynasty
Wang Feng 王逢, 1319 - 1388
Wang Feng 王逢, 1319 - 1388
Chinese
Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368 | early Ming dynasty, 1368–1644
1998-75 f
Information
Title
Colophons to Zhao Mengfu's "Tianma tu"
Dates
undated
Medium
Album leaf, ink on paper
Dimensions
Calligraphy: ca. 29.2 × 37.6 cm (11 1/2 × 14 13/16 in.)
sheet: 35 x 53 cm. (13 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.)
Leaf (closed): 38.8 x 57 cm. (15 1/4 x 22 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-75 f
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed "Wang Feng" and "Huang Tian"; formerly incorrectly identified in Museum files as Huang Shen (Qing dyn., native of Fukien province). Thanks to Sun Zhixin for the correction (Oct. 1992). Also correctly identified in Nakata and Fu, Masterpieces (see below), vol. 4.
Inscription
Text:
Wang Feng: 7-character (qi lu) poem in 8 lines
Huang Tian: Calligraphy in 3 lines, written on the same leaf with Wang Feng’s colophon.
Both are colophons to Zhao Mengfu’s Tianma tu (Heavenly horse) painting (unidentified).
Colophons:
Luo Tianchi (jinshi degree 1826), signed “Shenghu,” undated.
3 columns written on the leaf’s left border.
Marks/Labels/Seals
Seals:
Wang Feng (5):
"Mao lin xiu zhu zhi suo" 茂林脩竹之§, square yin (2nd from left, 3rd from bottom)
"Zui-[jian]yuan [ ]" 最閒園§, square yin (right, bottom)
Vertical rectangular yin (right, top)
Square yin (right, top)
[Damaged] (middle, top)
Collectors':
Wu Yüan-hui 伍元蕙 (1834–1865): "Wu shi shengxianglou cang" 伍 氏聖 香 樓 藏, square yang [?] (left, bottom); "Wu Yuanhui Liquan fu ping shu tu hua zhi yin" 伍元蕙儷荃甫評書讀畫之印, vertical rectangular yang (middle, bottom)
"[ ] [ ] shending," vertical rectangular yin (right, 2nd from bottom)
Culture
Period
Materials
–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.
