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Figures in Landscape

Painting
1721-1725 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This fan is typical of the type of small gifts given by the Qing emperors to favoured aristocrats and high officials.

The painting is by Jiao Bingzhen, not only a court artist (active between 1689 - 1726), but also a valued mathematician known to have collaborated with Giuseppe Castiglione, the Itlaian Jesuit artist. The calligraphy on the fan is made by an important civil servant, Fang Guangcheng, and the inscriptions on the wooden guards are also made by other important officials.

This fan was once in the possession of the Qing statesman Li Hongzhang.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleFigures in Landscape (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colours on paper, <i>zitan</i> wood guards
Brief description
Fan, colours on paper, zitan wood guards, painted by Jiao Bingzhen (active 1689-1726), calligraphy by Fang Guancheng (1698-1768), China, Qing dynasty, 1721-1725.
Physical description
Folding fan, colours on paper, zitan wood guards; painted with landscape and figures in colour on one side, calligraphy on the other.
Dimensions
  • Length: 31.7cm
Style
Credit line
Given by Mrs Alec Tweedie
Object history
One of a pair with T.20-1936.
Registered File number 2125/1936.
Production
Painted by Jiao Bingzhen (active 1689-1726), calligraphy by Fang Guancheng (1698-1768).
Subjects depicted
Summary
This fan is typical of the type of small gifts given by the Qing emperors to favoured aristocrats and high officials.

The painting is by Jiao Bingzhen, not only a court artist (active between 1689 - 1726), but also a valued mathematician known to have collaborated with Giuseppe Castiglione, the Itlaian Jesuit artist. The calligraphy on the fan is made by an important civil servant, Fang Guangcheng, and the inscriptions on the wooden guards are also made by other important officials.

This fan was once in the possession of the Qing statesman Li Hongzhang.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Rose Kerr (ed.), TT Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art pp.194-195
  • William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Eight dynasties of Chinese painting : the collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1980, no. 261, pp.353-354.
Collection
Accession number
T.20A-1936

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Record createdOctober 16, 2008
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