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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
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Description
This is the title page of the The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled by Wang Gai in conjunction with Wang Shi, Wang Nie, and Zhu Sheng. It is volume 1 of an edition of 23 volumes, probably a reprint of an edition printed in Kyoto (1812–1817). The use of green is unusual, and may indicate a trial printing though these were typically in red. Xu Bing also printed a red version of The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll. The column of characters on the right of this title page is written in the form of script used on ancient bronzes. The second character down, here part of a place name, is the word for ‘water’ that Xu Bing uses for rivers in his landscripts.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (possible place of publication)
- Date
- 1812 - 1817
- Artist/maker
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after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
- Associated people
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after Li Yu (1610 - 1680) (publisher)
- Material and technique
- print; bound
- Dimensions
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closed 26.4 x 17.6 x 1.5 cm (height x width x depth)
double page 26.2 x 31.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI2009.1
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 79 on p. 162, pp. 151, 163, illus. p. 162 fig. 79
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- returned to owner
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