Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of the Ashmolean collection of Chinese paintings by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2000).
Publications online: 222 objects
Mountain landscape
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Literature notes
Sheng Maoye was from Changzhou (present Suzhou) in Jiangsu province. Though Sheng's works are praised in late Ming painting treatises by his contemporaries, few details of his life are known. Most of his extant paintings are preserved in Japan. -
Description
Sheng Maoye was from Changzhou (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu province). His works are praised in late Ming painting treatises by his contemporaries, although few details of his life are known. The poem inscribed on this painting is titled Late Autumn in the Mountain Studio by Xu Hun (c. AD 791- c. 858), a poet from the late Tang period (618-907). It reads: ‘The water is cold, and deeply the stones can be seen; the night in autumn is silent, and the wind can be heard’.
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- May 1636
- Artist/maker
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Sheng Maoye (c. 1607 - 1673) (artist)after Xu Hun (c. AD 791 - c. 858) (author)
- Associated people
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Erjing (active c. 1636) (recipient)
- Material and technique
- ink and slight colour on silk
- Dimensions
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mount 273 x 62.5 cm (height x width)
painting 111 x 42.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- EAX.1303
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 120 on p. 139, illus. p. 139 fig. 120
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sheng Maoye was from Changzhou (present Suzhou) in Jiangsu province. Though Sheng's works are praised in late Ming painting treatises by his contemporaries, few details of his life are known. Most of his extant paintings are preserved in Japan.
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