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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
2003-139.5
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
2003-139.5
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed
Inscription
dated 1796
Inscription:
鐵山在鄒縣北門外三里許崖刻八分書佛経字大徑尺其上篆額止石頌二字大二尺許經後字稍殺徑五六寸有漢丞相匡衡苗裔匡喆造經 ? 韜書皇周大象元年等字
Mount Tie is about three li from the north gate of Zou district. Buddhist sutras in bafen clerical script are engraved on its cliff walls, each character being about one chi across. Carved in seal script above [the sutras] is the heading Shisong ("Stone Eulogy") of only two characters, which measures about two chi across. The inscription following the sutra texts is of a reduced size, which each character about five or six cun (Chinese inches) accross. [Among other characters, the inscription contains this passage:] "Kuang Zhe, a descendant of the Han dynasty Chancellor Kuang Heng, had made the [incised] Buddhist sutras with calligraphy by ? Tao in the first year of the Daxiang era of the Royal Zhou (i.e., Northern Zhou, 579)," and other words.
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
– 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.
