Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)
Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)

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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
2003-139.4

Information

Title
Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)
Dates

1796

Maker
Huang Yi 黃易
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
2003-139.4
Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures
signed
Inscription
dated 1796 Inscription: 魏正光時僧法定住靈巖達磨殿後有鐵物自地湧出六尺許如袈裟披摺之狀有分書鐵袈裟三字疑金元人筆後移至崖下建亭焉或云鑄鐘不成 In the Zhengguang era (520–524), monk Fading of the Wei Dynasty was residing in the Lingyan Si Temple. [At that time] behind the Damodian Hall a metal object emerged from the earth and surged up to six chi above ground. [Its surface] resembles the folds of a monk's robe (jiasha). Written in [ba]fen clerical script [on this object] are the three characters "tie jia sha" ("iron monk's robe") suspected to have been inscribed by people of the Jin or Yuan period. It was later moved to the foot of the cliff and a pavilian was built there [to shelter it]. Some say that [this curious object was left over from] an unsuccessful casting of a bell.
Culture
Chinese
Period
Qing
Type
paintings, albums, chinese painting styles
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Subject
landscapes (representations), stelae, mountains

– 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.

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