ZHOU WU WANG, THE MARTIAL KING OF ZHOU

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ANONYMOUS (MING DYNASTY, 1368-1644)
ZHOU WU WANG, THE MARTIAL KING OF ZHOU
Scroll mounted and framed, in ink and colour on silk
62.5/8 x 29.5/8 in. (159 x 75.3cm.)
Inscribed in clerical script "Zhou Wu Wang": the Martial King of Zhou (Zhou Dynasty, 1100-256 BC), and added in standard script "Fa Zhou you tianxia babai nian": [Zhou Wu Wang] subjected Zhou and established reign under heaven for 800 years
With four collectors' seals, amongst which Geng Zhaozhong (1640-1686): Xin Gong Shou Cang Shu Hua Yin Ji (below the inscription)

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拍品專文

Wu Wang, or the Martial King, led his people of the Zhou (who came from the West, of the valley of the Wei) to defeat the corrupted last king of the Shang dynasty (1600c-1100c BC), and established his Mandate of Heaven (Tianming). His brother Zhou Gong, Duke of Zhou, would later consolidate the new reign.

The "Zhou" referrred to in the inscription in standard script is short for Zhou Xin or Zhou Wang, the infamous ruler, who's reign caused the downfall of the Shang dynasty.

Geng Zhaozhong was a well known collector from Liaoning. Another version of the seal mentioned above, which reads Xin Gong Shou Cang Shu Hua Yin Ji, can be found on several paintings in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Nelson Atkinson Museum, Kansas City Missouri, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.