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Plum Blossoms
Wang Shishen1747
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- Title: Plum Blossoms
- Creator: Wang Shishen (Chinese, 1686-1759)
- Date Created: 1747
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 142.7 x 75.5 cm (56 3/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.366
- Medium: hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Inscriptions: Artist's 4 poems, inscription, signature, and 3 seals: Looking for plum blossoms with friends, enjoying the fresh clear day, My black shoes and cotton socks feel light. With fine groves in front of the ancient temple door, I walk to and fro, as in a painting. One clear chime breaks the silence in the Mountains, All the heroes of the Six Dynasties, after a thousand years, are forgotten. Enjoy the idle days under a Buddhist window, Plum blossoms monopolize the east wind with their branches. Next to the little stone bridge is a path leading west, Wherever you walk, your staff will touch some dike of the Sui Dynasty. Tourists love only the Ch'i-ling temple, So sea-gulls take to startled flight and horses neigh. After ten years I revisited the I-su An, The old plums are no longer on the southeast side of the garden. I pass a peaceful night, though unable to offer fragrant flowers, As bright moonlight cheerlessly falls upon the Buddhist shrine. Four poems composed on our way from the Iron Buddha Temple to the I-su An Retreat at P'ing-shan, while looking for plum blossoms with friends. Ch'ao-lin, Wang Shih-shen painted [this]. [2 seals] Wang Shih-sheng; Chin-jen fu. [seal, lower right corner] Ch'ao-lin. trans. WKH/LYSL 3 colophons, 3 additional inscriptions, and 23 additional seals: 1 inscription, dated 1739, and 2 seals of Mao Yin-k'uei (17th-18th c.); 1 colophon and 3 seals of Lu K'uei-hsün (17th-18th c.); 1 colophon and 3 seals of Chu Chin (1686-1769); 1 colophon and 4 seals of Yü Pi-k'uei (17th-18th c.); 1 inscription and 2 seals of Yao Shih-yü (1695-1749); 1 inscription and 3 seals of ? Shu-teh; 1 seal of Shen Wu (dates unknown); 1 seal of Lou Ts'un (19th c.); 2 seals of Ch'eng Ch'i (20th c.); 2 unidentified.
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit Line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Accession Number: 1985.366
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