Calligraphy in Running script (Xing shu) Artist: Yun Shouping (Chinese, 1633–1690)

Medium

Mounted fan, ink on paper, album leaf

Dimensions

with mounting: 13 × 24 3/8 in. (33.02 × 61.9 cm)
without mounting: 6 5/16 × 20 1/8 in. (16 × 51.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of H. Christopher Luce, B.A. 1972

Accession Number

1986.141.8

Geography
Culture
Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

bought at auction 6/24/83 (as per K. Luce)
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Additional information

Object/Work type

calligraphy

Inscriptions

青松勁挺姿。凌霄恥屈盤。種種出枝葉。牽連上松端。秋花起絳烟。旖旎雲錦段。右米南宮擬古詩。 熠熠客星,豈晉所得。卷器泉石,流腴翰墨。戲著談標,書存馬式(戎)。鬱鬱昭陵,玉椀已出。戎溫無類,誰寶真物。右蘭亭跋。 戲臨藏帖,廷輯老盟長鑒之。惲壽平。\r\n\r\nSeals:\r\nAuthor’s- 正叔、壽平、東園;Collector’s- 佩裳曾藏、少唐翰墨、逸[厂+金] 心賞。\r\n\r\n 蜀素帖。\r\n 宋米芾褚遂良摹蘭亭序跋贊,北京故宮博物院藏。\r\n 注:這個字讀qin,陽平。\r\n\r\nTranslation:\r\nThe green pine tree is lean and holds its elegance,\r\nReaching into the sky yet having roots squeezed in the low stone.\r\nIts branches and leaves extend for layers,\r\nAnd, connected, it reaches the top of the tree.\r\nFrom fall flowers arise red smokes,\r\nThem, charming and tender, like brocade silk.\r\n\r\nYou Mi at the Southern palace, poem written in ancient style.\r\n\r\nBrilliant the new stars, how can they be acquired from below?\r\nThe wrapped objects and spring and stone, where in flows out in excess.\r\nThe plays hecome part of all conversations, the calligraphy saved through times of war.\r\nGloomy is the Zhao Mausoleum, the jade bowls have some out.\r\nThere is no constancy for the temperatures of war, and who treasures the real precious matters?\r\n\r\nWritten on the Lan Ting Xu. Saved by Xilin, for the fine appreciation of Master Jingji. Yun Shouping.

Signed

Shouping

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