The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, part 3, insects and flowers, vol. 1
Colour Woodblock Print
1701 (published)
1701 (published)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, part 3, insects and flowers, vol. 2, dated 1701;
Pap, China, prints
Pap, China, prints
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, part 3, insects and flowers, vol. 1 (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour prints from woodblocks |
| Brief description | Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden, part 3, insects and flowers, vol. 2, dated 1701; Pap, China, prints |
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| Style | |
| Production type | Limited edition |
| Marks and inscriptions | 葉如斜界紙, 心似倒抽書 |
| Credit line | Given by Miss Alexander |
| Production | Opinion given by Prof. Thomas Ebrey - independant scholar (USA), seen in V&A stores November 2011: The four large volumes of Jie zi yuan huazhuan were especially interesting (E.4777, 4778, 4779, 4780-1916). They were the full color prints from Part III of the the JZY, and are from the first, 1701 edition. They are in very good condition. While not of the very earliest printings (like the set in the recent National Library of China facsimile reproduction volumes and the set in the Liaoning Provincial Museum), they are from about the same time (and in much better condition) as the set in the Daitokyu Library in Tokyo, of which a very expensive facsimile edition was recently published. And much earlier than the Kansas City first edition. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | An English translation of the work, The Tao of Painting - A study of the ritual disposition of Chinese painting, with a translation of the Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting 1679-1701, was made by Mai-mai Sze and published in New York in 1956. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.4778:16-1916 |
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| Record created | November 8, 2018 |
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