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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A catalogue of Chinese paintings from the Reyes Collection by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 1996).

Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

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The Oath in the Peach Garden

  • Literature notes

    The scene illustrated here is the opening leaf of the album. Dated 1992 and entitled The Oath in the Peach Garden it depicts the episode in which the three heroes of the novel swear allegiance to one another. The robust style of the painting is suited to the swashbuckling, popular nature of the novel.
  • Description

    Zhou Jingxin is well-known for paintings of figures from vernacular fiction, in this case the heroes Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and Guang Yu from the novel Sanguo yanyi or Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. Such heroes have a long history of representation in woodblock illustrations and on porcelain, where they appear similarly labelled.

    The scene illustrated here is the opening leaf of the album, and depicts the episode in which the three heroes swear allegiance to one another, while incense burns in a ritual vessel of ancient form.

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChinaJiangsu province Nanjing (place of creation)
    Date
    1992
    Artist/maker
    Zhou Jingxin (born 1959) (artist)
    Zhou Jingxin (born 1959) (calligrapher)
    after Luo Guanzhong (active c. 1330 - 1398) (author)
    Associated people
    Guan Yu (died AD 219) (subject)
    Liu Bei (AD 161 - 223) (subject)
    Zhang Fei (died AD 221) (subject)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    page 44.5 x 44.5 cm (height x width)
    painting 34.5 x 34.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    n/a
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
    Accession no.
    EA1995.294.a
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 124 on p. 90, p. 9, illus. p. 90 fig. 124

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porcelain

  • porcelain

    Ceramic material composed of kaolin, quartz, and feldspar which is fired to a temperature of c.1350-1400⁰c. The resulting ceramic is vitreous, translucent, and white in colour.

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