- Formatted Medium
- handscroll, ink and light color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 24 x 545 cm (9 7/16 x 214 9/16 in.); Overall: 24 x 547.5 cm (9 7/16 x 215 9/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and 15 sealrs.
Ink Orchids. Sewn as pendants for the man of worth, swaying quiety, fragrance in the valley. [seal] Hsiao-chu ts'un
Peony. Wiping his face, the young gentleman Ho [Ho Yen of Wei, Three Kingdoms] appears to have been powdered. His previous life was the perfume-stealing Han Shou [of Chin, 265-419], the fragrance still lingers. [seal] Ts'un-wu chai.
Flowering Crab Apple, New Bamboo. Shao-lin [Tu Fu, 712-770] had to put down his brush. [Flowering Crab Apple]. Yü-k'o [Wen T'ung, d. 1079) in vain wrote poems about [Bamboo]. [seal] Yu-shih.
Lotus Flowers. When she turns her head, half-hidden by a fan, and casts a glance, all the beautiful women become colorless. [seal] K'ang yüeh huai.
Loquat. Ripeness in summer. [seal] Lu-chih.
Pomegranate Flower. Whenever I remember you I will send my thoughts, but where have you gone--the [skirt] of pomegranate red? [seal] Wu-ho Sheng.
Day Lily. Plant the day lily to forget sorrow. [seal] Yu-shih.
Chrysanthemum. The untrammelled joy at the eastern fence. [seal] Lu-chih.
Begonia. Comparing it to the beauties of Spring, and spreading them out as trimming for the stone steps. [seal] Yu-shih.
Hibiscus. In recent years I have always enjoyed looking at flowers; instead of dark red I preferred pink ones. [seal] Jen-sheng i-lou.
Narcissus, Camellia. The jade girdle left behind at Lo River. [Narcissus].
The precious pearls glitter before Spring. [Camellia]. [seal] Lu-chih.
Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina domestica). A single branch in the wintry season. [seal] K'ang yüeh huai.
Plum. Fragrant snow in the Lo-fou Mountains. [seal] Ts'un-wu chai.
In the eleventh lunar month of the hsin-mao year of the Chia-ching era [1531], [I] imitated the boneless style of Yüan masters in sketching from life. Ku-hsiang [seals] Yu-shih; Lu-chih. trans. WKH/LYSL
2 colophons and 23 additional seals: 1 colophon dated 1632, and 2 seals of Li Jih-hua (1565-1635); 1 colophon and 2 seals of Hsiang Sheng-mo (1597-1658); 3 seals of Liang Ch'ing-piao (1620-1691); 6 seals of the Chia-ch'ing emperor (r. 1796-1820); 9 seals of Ch'eng Ch'i (20th c.)
- Accession Number
- 1977.4
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1977, Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c, <em>Urban Council and the Min Chiu Society, Ming and Ch'ing. </em>City Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, (June 12-July 12, 1970)., <em>Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-April 7, 2004).
- Rights Statement
- CC0