File:Nüshi zhen tu 女史箴图 (Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies) (BM 1903,0408,0.1).jpg
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Nüshi zhen tu 女史箴图 (Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies) ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
After: Gu Kaizhi 顧愷之 |
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Title |
Nüshi zhen tu 女史箴图 (Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies) |
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Description |
English: Handscroll painting in nine scenes (originally twelve) illustrating the 'Nüshi zhen' (Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies), a text composed by Zhang Hua (c. AD 232-300). It bears many seals and long colophons in the hands of the Huizong and Qianlong emperors (an exterior label was possibly written by the Qianlong emperor too). At the beginning is a fragment of Song dynasty 'kesi' tapestry-woven silk from an old mounting of the handscroll, depicting peonies, followed by a large three-character inscription. The scroll consists of quotations from the text by Zhang Hua, followed in each case by figure illustrations without any background or at most slight suggestions of setting. At the end of the handscroll was a landscape painting depicting trees by Zou Yigui (now mounted separately [see BM 1903.0408.01b]). Made of ink and colours on silk.
Another scene shows a court concubine at her toilet with a maid. The concubie wears a long-sleeved wrapover robe while the maid has a separate skirt and wrapover top, and an elaborate hair ornament. A bronze mirror can be seen in use on a lacquered wood stand, as well as lacquered toilet boxes. The large lacquer box lid is inlaid with silver. |
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Depicted people | Illustration to: Zhang Hua | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 5thC-7thC (Previously on database 6thC-8thC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
silk medium QS:P186,Q37681 |
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Dimensions | Height: 26 centimetres (brocade wrapper) Height: 24.37 centimetres Length: 343.75 centimetres Width: 24.60 centimetres (brocade wrapper) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Asia |
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Accession number |
1903,0408,0.1 |
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Notes |
This painting is now often considered to be a work of the fifth to early seventh century . It lacks three of the twelve original narrative registers (these are preserved in the Song dynasty copy of the painting now in the National Palace Museum in Beijing, see Wen Wu 1961, no. 6, pp. 7-12 for these images [jrk 27/4/00]). Three facsimiles of this object have been made: in 1912 a colour woodprint by Sugizaki Hideaki and Urushibara Yoshijiro with a text by Lawrence Binyon (registered as 1913.7-8.01); in 1925 a monochrome collotype, made in Japan under the supervision of Prof. Fukui Kichijiro of Sendai University; and in 1966 a colour collotype facsimile by Benrido of Japan, with a text by Basil Gray. See Basil Gray, 'Admonitions' etc., 1966, for translations (after Waley 1923 and 1964) of the inscriptions and its mount and exterior label. Bibliography: Wen Wu 1961, no.6, pp.7-12. Waley 1923. Shimbi Taikan no.xiv. Taki Seiichi, 'Ku K'ai-chih's Illustration of the Poem of Lo-shen' Kokka, 253 (June 1911). Taki Seiichi, "Eikoku Hakubutsukan Ko Gaishi no Joshi shin zukan" [Gu Kaizhi's 'Admonitions of the Court Instructress picture scroll in the British Museum], Kokka, 287 (April 1914), pp. 259-65. Also published in Michaelson, 'Chinese Art in Detail' (BMP, 2006), p. 94 ('The toilette scene') and p. 96 ('The rejection scene'). |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1903-0408-0-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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