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JIANG SHEN
THE RIVER YANGZI
Handscroll, ink and light colours on silk
21 x 196.8 cm. (8 1/4 x 77 1/2 in.)
Signed: Sachuan Jiang Guandao
Seven collectors' seals on the painting, including:
Sun Fuchang ( ): Tai Gu Sun Shi Jia Cang, Heng Yang Dao Sun Fu Chang Zhen Cang Yin, Tai Gu Sun Jin Ju Zhen Wan Yin;
Gao Shiqi (1645-1703): Zhu Chuang; and
[illegible] Jian Ding Zhi Yin; Qi Yao Lin; Qi Yong [Bao Yong]
Inscription following the painting, with one seal: Chun, and one collector's seal
Colophons at the end of the scroll from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty by:
Gao Qi (1336-1374, ZLRD p.1979); Zhang Shi (14th century, ZWD entry no. 3687); Lu Yu; Xu Feng (1335-1393, ZLRD pp.1931-32); Zhou Nanlao; Tao Shen (14th-15th century, ZMRC p.964); Pan Boji; Han Yike (14th-15th century, ZLRD p.2292); Du Wan (145h-15th century, ZLRD p.822); Song Shan; Shen Qi; Wang Yi (14th-15th century, ZLRD p.158); Huang Ben; Zhang Wei; Ni Zan (1301-1374, ZMRC p.656); Jin Wen (1370-1448, ZLRD p.1505); Qian Shen (14th-15th century, ZLRD p.1906); Wang Tinggui; Chen Shaoxian (14th-15th century, ZMRC p.1021); Bian Tong (14th-15th century, ZLRD p.297); Zhang Lun (1350-1407, ZLRD p.1206); Wang Sui (?-1415, ZWD entry no.3797); Xu Guan (14th-15th century, ZMRC p.946); Chen Ji (1370-1434, ZLRD p.1345); Zhang Ken (14th-15th century, ZWD entry no.3784, ZLRD p.1214);
Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), colophon giving brief biographies of eighteen of the previous Yuan and Ming writers, dated shenwu year (1534); and
Gao Shiqi, dated jisi year of the Kangxi era (1689)
Twentyfour collectors' seals at the end of the scroll, including:
Wang Chong (1494-1533): Wang Li Ji Yin, Ya Yi Shan Ren;;
Wang Shimin (1592-1680): Wang Shi Min Yin (twice), Xun Zhi (twice), Yan Ke (twice), Wang Xun Zhi Shu Hua Ji, Xi Tian (twixe);
Wang Yan (1645-1728): Wang Yan Si Yin, Zhuan An (twice); Zao Ru Jian Cang (twice); Zhuan An Zhen Shang;
Gao Shiqi: Jiang Cun Mi Cang, Ju Jian, Gao Shi Qi;
Li Shizhuo (circa 1690-1770): Shi Zhuo (twice), Tian Ji Zhen Ru Xiang
Literature
1. Zhan Jingfeng, Dongtu Xuanlan pian, reprinted in Zhongguo Shuhua Quanshu, Shanghai Shuhua Chubanshe, 1988, vol.4, p.39
2. Wu Sheng, Daguan lu, reprinted in Zhongguo Shuhua Quanshu, ibid., vol. 8, pp.438-440
3. Gu Fu, Pingsheng Zhuangguan, reprinted in Zhongguo Shuhua Quanshu, ibid., vol. 4, p.976
4. Bian Yongyu, Shigutang Shuhua Huikao, reprinted in Zhongguo Shuhua Quanshu, ibid., vol. 6, pp.1012-14
5. Gao Shiqi, Jiangcun Xiaoxia lu, reprinted in Zhongguo Shuhua Quanshu, ibid., vol. 7, pp.1013-14
6. Gao Shizi, Jiangcun Shuhua mu, reprinted in Zhongguo Shuhua Quanshu, ibid., vol. 7, p.1073
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