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Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖),
1796
Huang Yi 黃易, 1744–1801
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
2003-139.3
Information
Title
Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)
Dates
1796
Maker
Medium
Album leaf; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 12.3 × 14.6 cm (4 13/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Leaf (closed): 16.3 x 20.3 cm. (6 7/16 x 8 in.)
Credit Line
[Museum purchase]
Object Number
2003-139.3
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed
Inscription
dated 1796
Inscription:
一天門東為群玉菴祀王母宋皇祐間錬師龐歸蒙輩居此有題名石刻中有呂仙洞洞間刻宋紹盛政和題詩二首西為白鶴觀唐高宗以下六帝一后脩醮題名雙碑跌合而束之名鴛鴦碑
East of the Yitianmen Gate is the Qunyu'an Nunnery, a place for sacrifices to the Queen Mother (Wangmu). During the Songdynasty Huangyou era (1049–1053), the Daoist Pang Guimeng and his fellow practitioners resided here, and inscribed their names {or there are their inscribed names}. Among the stone carvings in the Luxian (the Daoist sage Lu Dongbin) Cave are two engraved poems dating to the Shaosheng (1094–1097) and Zhenghe (1111–1117) eras of the Song Dynasty. West [of the Yitianmen Gate] is the White Crane Daoist Temple, where the Tang dynasty emperor Gaozong and six emperors and one empress after him had their names inscribed {or had inscriptions engraved} [to commemorate] the erection of the jiao altar. Two stelae were stacked and bound together, and are [thus] called the yuanyang ("conjugal") stele.
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– after 1988 Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904-1988] (France), by descent to Fabrice Olivier Dubosc (Milan, Italy), after 1988.
ca. 1988–2003 Fabrice Olivier Dubosc (Milan, Italy), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.
