Table Screen
ca. 1820-1850 (made)
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Table screen of bamboo veneer on wood core, rectangular with rounded corners at the top, the central panel of skin bamboo incised with a picture of a musical gathering where eight figures (seven male and one female) are grouped around a large basket of peaches, one playing the flute and another the clappers; on the reverse, twenty-eight character prose inscription in lishu, signed Tao Yuanzhi and incised seal Yuanzhi, followed by an abbreviated version of the "Lanting Preface" by Wang Xizhi in xingshu, this inscription signed Gu (?) yuan dao, and incised seal Youyi.
The wood stand inlaid with a panel of skin bamboo on both sides, one with an incised landscape; the reverse with an undecipherable twelve-character inscription in archaic seal script.
The wood stand inlaid with a panel of skin bamboo on both sides, one with an incised landscape; the reverse with an undecipherable twelve-character inscription in archaic seal script.
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Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Bamboo veneer on wood core |
Brief description | Table screen and stand, bamboo veneer on wood core, China, Qing dynasty, Daoguang reign period (1821-1850), ca. 1820-1850 |
Physical description | Table screen of bamboo veneer on wood core, rectangular with rounded corners at the top, the central panel of skin bamboo incised with a picture of a musical gathering where eight figures (seven male and one female) are grouped around a large basket of peaches, one playing the flute and another the clappers; on the reverse, twenty-eight character prose inscription in lishu, signed Tao Yuanzhi and incised seal Yuanzhi, followed by an abbreviated version of the "Lanting Preface" by Wang Xizhi in xingshu, this inscription signed Gu (?) yuan dao, and incised seal Youyi. The wood stand inlaid with a panel of skin bamboo on both sides, one with an incised landscape; the reverse with an undecipherable twelve-character inscription in archaic seal script. |
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Object history | The Lanting Preface, dated 353 A.D. is the most famous work of the calligrapher Wang Xizhi (303-379), and the most famous single piece of Chinese calligraphy. Tao Yuanzhi (1776-1852), official and calligrapher, particularly famous for his lishu: see Song Yuan Ming Wing Shuhuajia Nianbiao (Beijing 1962), pp. 389, 424, 428, 446, 452, 460, 469, 470 and 483. |
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Bibliographic reference | Clunas, Craig. Chinese Carving. London: Sun Tree Publishing Ltd in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1996. p. 58, fig. 64. |
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Accession number | FE.16-1976 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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