The Pavilion of Prince Teng 滕王閣圖

Item

Title

The Pavilion of Prince Teng
滕王閣圖

Description

Artist’s inscription and signature (2 columns in semi-cursive script)

The first decade of the eighth month in the renchen year of the Zhizheng era [1352] painted by Tang Di, Zihua, from Wuxing [in Zhejiang Province].

至正壬辰八月上澣吳興唐棣子華筆。

Artist's seal

Zihua 子華

identifier

40134

Source

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40134

Creator

Tang Di
唐棣

annotates

Label strip

He Guanwu 何冠五 (active early 20th c.), 1 column in standard script, undated (mounted on brocade wrapper):

唐子華《滕王閣圖》卷,田溪書屋藏。

Frontispiece

Ye Gongchuo 葉恭綽 (1881–1968), 9 columns in standard script, dated 1940; 1 seal:

唐子華 《滕王閣圖》 真蹟
民國二十九年一月為冠五兄題。恭綽 [印]: 遐盦詞翰

Colophon

Zhang Daqian 張大千 (1899–1983), 8 columns in semi-cursive script, dated 1940; 2 seals:

唐子華此卷士氣蔚然,絕去界畫窠臼,良由其胸次不同。遠師河陽,近效吳興,故能下筆安雅,有佩玉垂紳之度也。己卯十二月將再還蜀道出香澥,冠五三兄出示,因書其後。大千張爰 [印]:張爰、大千大利

Abstract

Collectors' seals

Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1686)
琴書堂
信公父
千山耿信公書畫之章
字信公昭忠印

Yunxiang/Yinxiang允祥/胤祥 (1686–1730) or Hongxiao 弘曉 (1722–1778)
怡府藏書畫記
怡王覽書畫印
怡親王寶

Hongxiao 弘曉 (1722–1778)
明善堂覽書畫印記

He Guanwu 何冠五 (active 1st half of 20th c.)
冠五珍藏
田溪書屋

Gu Luofu 顧洛阜 (John M. Crawford, Jr., 1913–1988)
顧洛阜
漢光閣
漢光閣主顧洛阜鑑藏中國古代書畫之章

Unidentified
春雷閣藏
東平
槙庭清玩
索孝彥師聖印

Illegible: 1

Rights Holder

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Identifier

1989.363.36

References

Shih Shou-ch'ien, Maxwell K. Hearn, and Alfreda Murck. The John M. Crawford, Jr., Collection of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Checklist. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, p. 24, cat. no. 44.

Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p. 412, pl. 95.

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