File:Palace ladies by a lotus pond.png
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Summary
Palace Ladies by a lotus pond
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| Artist |
Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century) |
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| Title |
Palace Ladies by a Lotus Pond |
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| Object type |
painting / handscroll  |
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| Description |
Qing Dynasty historical painting, hand scroll 18th century. Depicting a scene of women, children and servants (total of fifteen figures) engaged in various activities, including playing weiqi and playing musical instruments, both inside and outside a pavilion overlooking a lotus pond with a pair of mandarin ducks. In the middle there is one figure on each side of a fence covered with a flowering vine. To the left stand a woman and a servant (who holds a zither) in a pavilion containing a table with scholarly implements and a ding, and with a painting on a screen. Signature at lower left; total of 27 seals (17 on painting), four inscriptions (poems) on painting, five colophons, no labels. Unused frontispiece with cloud motif. Ivory pin. |
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| Date | 18th century | |||
| Medium | Ink and color on silk | |||
| Dimensions | H x W (image): 38.4 x 314.4 cm (15 1/8 x 123 3/4 in) | |||
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| Current location |
Chinese art |
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| Accession number |
F1903.114 |
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| Place of creation | China | |||
| Credit line | Gift of Charles Lang Freer | |||
| Notes |
This handscroll is attributed to the celebrated painter Zhou Wenju, who served at the court of the Southern Tang kingdom (937-975). Zhou was most highly regarded for his depictions of elegant palace women as they attended their everyday duties. Here, a group of ladies, children, and servants have gathered at a pavilion built over a lotus pond in a residential quarter of the palace grounds. Some of them while away the time with a game of weiqi (better known in the West by its Japanese name, go), which was traditionally considered one of the polite arts. Two other ladies with fishing rods stand by the pond, one of them beckoning a servant to bait her hook. While this painting bears a general thematic relationship to the tradition associated with Zhou Wenju, the overall composition, use of color, and stylistic execution are much closer to the approach popularized by the Ming dynasty painter, Qiu Ying (ca. 1494-1552), and may have been executed by an eighteenth-century follower after one of his designs. |
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| References |
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1903.114/ (English) |
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| Source/Photographer | https://asia.si.edu/object/F1903.114/ | |||
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