Pavilion of the Prince of Teng 滕王閣圖
Item
Title
Pavilion of the Prince of Teng 滕王閣圖
Description
(none)
Source
https://asia.si.edu/object/F1915.36h
Creator
Xia Yong (attributed to) (傳) 夏永
annotates
Label slip: Unidentified.
Pasted on cloth cover, upper right.
Four characters, standard script. No signature, date, seals.
墨林叢翰
Thicket of Brushworks from the Forest of Ink
Inscription: Literary text, prose and poem (8x7), by Wang Bo 王勃 (ca. 650–ca. 676): Qiuri
deng Hongfu Tengwangge jianbie xu 秋日登洪府滕王閣餞別序 (Preface [to Poems Composed]
On Ascending the Pavilion of the Prince of Teng in Hong Prefecture on an Autumn Day for a
Farewell Feast).2
46 columns, miniature standard script.
南昌故郡，洪都新府，星分翼軫，地接衡廬，襟三江而帶五湖，控蠻荊而引甌越。物華天
寶，龍光射牛斗之墟；人傑地靈，徐孺下陳蕃之榻。雄州霧列，俊彩星馳，臺隍枕夷夏之
交，賓主盡東南之美。都督閻公之雅望，棨戟遙臨；宇文新州之懿範，襜帷暫駐。十旬休
暇，勝友如雲，千里逢迎，高朋滿座。騰蛟起鳳，孟學士之詞宗；紫電清霜，王將軍之武
庫。家君作宰，路出名區，童子何知，躬逢勝餞。時維九月，序屬三秋，潦水盡而寒潭清
，煙光凝而暮山紫。儼驂騑於上路，訪風景於崇阿，臨帝子之長洲，得仙人之舊館。層巒
聳翠，上出重霄，飛閣流丹，下臨無地。鶴汀鳧渚，窮島嶼之縈迴；桂殿蘭宮，列岡巒之
體勢。披繡闥，俯雕甍，山原曠其盈視，川澤盱其駭矚。閭閻撲地，鐘鳴鼎之家；舸艦迷
津，青雀黃龍之軸。虹鎖雨鑓，彩徹雲衢，落霞與孤鶩齋飛，秋水共長天一色。漁舟唱晚
，響窮彭蠡之濱；雁陣驚寒，聲斷衡陽之浦。遙吟俯暢，逸興遄飛，爽籟發而清風生，纖
歌凝而白雲遏。睢園緣竹，氣淩彭澤之樽；鄴水朱華，光照臨川之筆。四美具，二難并，
窮睇眄於中天，極娛遊於暇日。天高地迴，覺宇宙之無窮；興盡悲來，識盈虛之有數。望
長安於日下，指吳會於雲閒，地勢極而南溟深，天柱高而北辰遠。關山難越，誰悲失路之
人；萍水相逢，盡是他鄉之客。懷帝閽而不見，奉宣室以何年。鳴呼，時運不齊，命途多
舛，馮唐易老，李廣難封。屈賈誼於長沙，非無聖主；竄梁鴻於海曲，豈乏明時。所賴君
子安貧，達人知命。老當益壯，寧知白首之心；窮且益堅，不墜青雲之志；酌貪泉而覺爽
，處涸轍以猶懽。北海雖賒，扶搖可接；東隅已逝，桑榆非晚。孟嘗高潔，空懷報國之心
；阮籍猖狂，豈效窮途之哭。勃，三尺微命，一介書生。無路請纓，等終軍之弱冠；有懷
投筆，慕宗慤之長風。舍簪笏於百齡，奉晨昏於萬里；非謝家之寶樹，接孟氏之芳鄰。他
曰趨庭，叨陪鯉對；今農捧袂，喜托龍門。楊意不逢，撫淩雲而自惜；鍾期既遇，奏流水
以何慚。鳴呼，勝地不常，盛筳難再；蘭亭已矣，梓澤坵墟。臨別贈言，幸承恩於偉餞；
登高作賦，是所望於羣公。敢竭鄙誠，恭疏短引；一言均賦，四韻俱成。詩曰:
滕王高閣臨江渚，佩玉鳴鸞罷歌舞；畫棟朝飛南浦雲，朱簾暮捲西山雨。 閒雲潭
影日悠悠，物換星移幾度秋；閣中帝子今何在，檻外長江空自流。
[Text not translated.3
]
Signature: none
Date: none
Seals: none
Pasted on cloth cover, upper right.
Four characters, standard script. No signature, date, seals.
墨林叢翰
Thicket of Brushworks from the Forest of Ink
Inscription: Literary text, prose and poem (8x7), by Wang Bo 王勃 (ca. 650–ca. 676): Qiuri
deng Hongfu Tengwangge jianbie xu 秋日登洪府滕王閣餞別序 (Preface [to Poems Composed]
On Ascending the Pavilion of the Prince of Teng in Hong Prefecture on an Autumn Day for a
Farewell Feast).2
46 columns, miniature standard script.
南昌故郡，洪都新府，星分翼軫，地接衡廬，襟三江而帶五湖，控蠻荊而引甌越。物華天
寶，龍光射牛斗之墟；人傑地靈，徐孺下陳蕃之榻。雄州霧列，俊彩星馳，臺隍枕夷夏之
交，賓主盡東南之美。都督閻公之雅望，棨戟遙臨；宇文新州之懿範，襜帷暫駐。十旬休
暇，勝友如雲，千里逢迎，高朋滿座。騰蛟起鳳，孟學士之詞宗；紫電清霜，王將軍之武
庫。家君作宰，路出名區，童子何知，躬逢勝餞。時維九月，序屬三秋，潦水盡而寒潭清
，煙光凝而暮山紫。儼驂騑於上路，訪風景於崇阿，臨帝子之長洲，得仙人之舊館。層巒
聳翠，上出重霄，飛閣流丹，下臨無地。鶴汀鳧渚，窮島嶼之縈迴；桂殿蘭宮，列岡巒之
體勢。披繡闥，俯雕甍，山原曠其盈視，川澤盱其駭矚。閭閻撲地，鐘鳴鼎之家；舸艦迷
津，青雀黃龍之軸。虹鎖雨鑓，彩徹雲衢，落霞與孤鶩齋飛，秋水共長天一色。漁舟唱晚
，響窮彭蠡之濱；雁陣驚寒，聲斷衡陽之浦。遙吟俯暢，逸興遄飛，爽籟發而清風生，纖
歌凝而白雲遏。睢園緣竹，氣淩彭澤之樽；鄴水朱華，光照臨川之筆。四美具，二難并，
窮睇眄於中天，極娛遊於暇日。天高地迴，覺宇宙之無窮；興盡悲來，識盈虛之有數。望
長安於日下，指吳會於雲閒，地勢極而南溟深，天柱高而北辰遠。關山難越，誰悲失路之
人；萍水相逢，盡是他鄉之客。懷帝閽而不見，奉宣室以何年。鳴呼，時運不齊，命途多
舛，馮唐易老，李廣難封。屈賈誼於長沙，非無聖主；竄梁鴻於海曲，豈乏明時。所賴君
子安貧，達人知命。老當益壯，寧知白首之心；窮且益堅，不墜青雲之志；酌貪泉而覺爽
，處涸轍以猶懽。北海雖賒，扶搖可接；東隅已逝，桑榆非晚。孟嘗高潔，空懷報國之心
；阮籍猖狂，豈效窮途之哭。勃，三尺微命，一介書生。無路請纓，等終軍之弱冠；有懷
投筆，慕宗慤之長風。舍簪笏於百齡，奉晨昏於萬里；非謝家之寶樹，接孟氏之芳鄰。他
曰趨庭，叨陪鯉對；今農捧袂，喜托龍門。楊意不逢，撫淩雲而自惜；鍾期既遇，奏流水
以何慚。鳴呼，勝地不常，盛筳難再；蘭亭已矣，梓澤坵墟。臨別贈言，幸承恩於偉餞；
登高作賦，是所望於羣公。敢竭鄙誠，恭疏短引；一言均賦，四韻俱成。詩曰:
滕王高閣臨江渚，佩玉鳴鸞罷歌舞；畫棟朝飛南浦雲，朱簾暮捲西山雨。 閒雲潭
影日悠悠，物換星移幾度秋；閣中帝子今何在，檻外長江空自流。
[Text not translated.3
]
Signature: none
Date: none
Seals: none
Abstract
12 Total
1. Wang Zhenpeng 王振鵬 (ca. 1280–ca. 1329) – (1) – fakeCi Guyun chushi zhang『賜孤雲處士章』(square relief) – top right
2. Li Tingxiang 李廷相 (1481–1544) – (1)
Puyang Li Tingxiang jia[cang tuji]『濮陽李廷相家[藏圖籍]』 4
(square relief; right twothirds)
– lower left
3. Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1687) – (7)
Zhenshang『真賞』(gourd relief) – top right
[Zhen]mi『[珍]祕』(square relief; left half) – upper right
[Yi’er] zisun『[宜爾]子孫』(square intaglio; left half) – mid right
Gong『公』(square relief) – lower left
Xin’gong zhenshang『信公珍賞』(square relief) – bottom left
Duwei Geng [Xingong shuhua zhizhang]『都尉耿[信公書畫之章]』(square intaglio; right
half) – lower mid left
Dancheng『丹誠』(circle intaglio; right half) – mid left
4. Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (late 17th–early 18th century) – (1)
[Huihou] zhencang『[會候]珍藏』(square intaglio; left half) – lower right
5. Cheng Xun 成勳 (unidentified, 19th–20th century?) – (1)
Lianqiao jiancang『蓮樵鑑藏』(square relief) – upper left
6. Unidentified – (1)
Xiushui Liushi [jiacang zhenwan]『秀水劉氏[家藏珍玩]』(square relief, right half)5 – upper
left)
1. Wang Zhenpeng 王振鵬 (ca. 1280–ca. 1329) – (1) – fakeCi Guyun chushi zhang『賜孤雲處士章』(square relief) – top right
2. Li Tingxiang 李廷相 (1481–1544) – (1)
Puyang Li Tingxiang jia[cang tuji]『濮陽李廷相家[藏圖籍]』 4
(square relief; right twothirds)
– lower left
3. Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640–1687) – (7)
Zhenshang『真賞』(gourd relief) – top right
[Zhen]mi『[珍]祕』(square relief; left half) – upper right
[Yi’er] zisun『[宜爾]子孫』(square intaglio; left half) – mid right
Gong『公』(square relief) – lower left
Xin’gong zhenshang『信公珍賞』(square relief) – bottom left
Duwei Geng [Xingong shuhua zhizhang]『都尉耿[信公書畫之章]』(square intaglio; right
half) – lower mid left
Dancheng『丹誠』(circle intaglio; right half) – mid left
4. Geng Jiazuo 耿嘉祚 (late 17th–early 18th century) – (1)
[Huihou] zhencang『[會候]珍藏』(square intaglio; left half) – lower right
5. Cheng Xun 成勳 (unidentified, 19th–20th century?) – (1)
Lianqiao jiancang『蓮樵鑑藏』(square relief) – upper left
6. Unidentified – (1)
Xiushui Liushi [jiacang zhenwan]『秀水劉氏[家藏珍玩]』(square relief, right half)5 – upper
left)
Rights Holder
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)
Identifier
F1915.36h
References
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Album leaf. 24.7 x 24.7 cm. Inscribed with Wang Bo text. Artist
seal. In Wu Tung, Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Painting (Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, 1997), 228 (no. 140).
Shanghai Musuem of Art. Album leaf. 24.4 x 25.6 cm. Inscribed with Wang Bo text. Artist seal.
In Zhongguo gudai shuhua jiandingzu 中國古代書畫鑒定組, eds., Zhongguo gudai shuhua tumu
中國古代書畫圖目, vol. 2 (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1987), 113, Hu 滬 1–0223.
National Palace Museum, Taibei. Yuan dynasty, anonymous. Somewhat different composition.
Inscribed with Wang Bo text. Seal of Wang Zhenpeng 王振鵬 (ca. 1280–ca. 1329). 24.2 x 24.2
cm. In Lin Lina 林莉娜, Gongshi louge zhi mei: jiehua tezhan 宮室樓閣之美：界畫特展 (The
Elegance and Elements of Chinese Architecture: Catalogue to the Special Exhibition "The
Beauty of Traditional Chinese Architecture in Painting") (Taibei: National Palace Museum,
2000), 52–53 (plate 17), 109, and 125–26.
Xie Zhiliu 謝稚柳 (1910–1997). Tang Wudai Song Yuan mingji 唐五代宋元名迹. Shanghai:
Gudian wenxue chubanshe, 1957. Cat. no. 101.
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Pp. 14 and 37 (plate 21).
Fontein, Jan and Rose Hempel. China, Korea, Japan. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1968. Plate 205.
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬 (1920–2007), ed. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄
(Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings). 5 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo,
1982–83. Vol. 1, 245 (A21–152).
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th century.
New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 1992. Pp.
397–402, esp. 399 (fig. 168).
Fu Xinian 傅熹年. ―Zhongguo gudai de jianzhu hua‖ 中國古代的建築畫. In Wenwu 文物 502
(1998.3): 75–94, esp. 85 (fig. 19).
Toda Teisuke 戶田禎佑 and Ogawa Hiromitsu 小川裕充, eds. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku:
zokuhen 中國繪畫總合圖錄：續編 (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings:
Second Series). 4 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 1998–2001. Vol. 1, 129 (A21–365-8).
Ebine Toshirō 海老根聰郎. ―Gendai zenki no sansuiga‖ 元代前期の山水画. In Ebine Toshirō
and Nishioka Yasuhiro 西岡康宏, eds. Sekai bijutsu daizenshū, Tōyō hen, dai 7 kan: Gen 世界美
術大全集 : 東洋遍第 7 卷，元. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 1999. Pp. 141–50, esp. 149 (fig. 57).
Strassberg, Richard E. Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China. Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. 104–109.
seal. In Wu Tung, Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Painting (Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, 1997), 228 (no. 140).
Shanghai Musuem of Art. Album leaf. 24.4 x 25.6 cm. Inscribed with Wang Bo text. Artist seal.
In Zhongguo gudai shuhua jiandingzu 中國古代書畫鑒定組, eds., Zhongguo gudai shuhua tumu
中國古代書畫圖目, vol. 2 (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1987), 113, Hu 滬 1–0223.
National Palace Museum, Taibei. Yuan dynasty, anonymous. Somewhat different composition.
Inscribed with Wang Bo text. Seal of Wang Zhenpeng 王振鵬 (ca. 1280–ca. 1329). 24.2 x 24.2
cm. In Lin Lina 林莉娜, Gongshi louge zhi mei: jiehua tezhan 宮室樓閣之美：界畫特展 (The
Elegance and Elements of Chinese Architecture: Catalogue to the Special Exhibition "The
Beauty of Traditional Chinese Architecture in Painting") (Taibei: National Palace Museum,
2000), 52–53 (plate 17), 109, and 125–26.
Xie Zhiliu 謝稚柳 (1910–1997). Tang Wudai Song Yuan mingji 唐五代宋元名迹. Shanghai:
Gudian wenxue chubanshe, 1957. Cat. no. 101.
Cahill, James F. Chinese Album Leaves in the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution, 1961. Pp. 14 and 37 (plate 21).
Fontein, Jan and Rose Hempel. China, Korea, Japan. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1968. Plate 205.
Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬 (1920–2007), ed. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄
(Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings). 5 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo,
1982–83. Vol. 1, 245 (A21–152).
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th century.
New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 1992. Pp.
397–402, esp. 399 (fig. 168).
Fu Xinian 傅熹年. ―Zhongguo gudai de jianzhu hua‖ 中國古代的建築畫. In Wenwu 文物 502
(1998.3): 75–94, esp. 85 (fig. 19).
Toda Teisuke 戶田禎佑 and Ogawa Hiromitsu 小川裕充, eds. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku:
zokuhen 中國繪畫總合圖錄：續編 (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings:
Second Series). 4 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 1998–2001. Vol. 1, 129 (A21–365-8).
Ebine Toshirō 海老根聰郎. ―Gendai zenki no sansuiga‖ 元代前期の山水画. In Ebine Toshirō
and Nishioka Yasuhiro 西岡康宏, eds. Sekai bijutsu daizenshū, Tōyō hen, dai 7 kan: Gen 世界美
術大全集 : 東洋遍第 7 卷，元. Tokyo: Shōgakukan, 1999. Pp. 141–50, esp. 149 (fig. 57).
Strassberg, Richard E. Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China. Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. 104–109.
abstract
Attributed to Xia Yong 夏永