Hanging screen with the imperial inscription “Wang Guxiang feeding the baby” on Kesi

“The hanging screen of Wang Guxiang’s Painting of Nurturing Young Children”, inscribed on the imperial script of Kesi, is 64 centimeters vertically and 36 centimeters horizontally during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This hanging screen is for Emperor Qianlong to watch the painting of feeding young birds by Ming Dynasty painter Wang Guxiang (1501-1568). After recalling that in order to warn officials to be diligent in governing and loving the people, he produced a large number of paintings by Song Dynasty painter Li Di, “The Painting of Chicken Chicks Waiting to be Fed”, which were awarded to his subordinates. He issued an order to copy and annotate Wang Guxiang’s “The Painting of Feeding Young Birds” as his motto of loving the people as a child, and wrote his own inscription. The work adopts a decorative method of combining dichromatic halos with receding halos, and employs techniques such as flat tapestry, architrave tapestry, structural tapestry, wooden comb tapestry, and phoenix tail tapestry. In order to emphasize the theme and express the texture of the patterns, the images of the old bird and the young bird adopt the technique of tapering their hair, and the scene of the young bird crying for feeding is particularly vivid
On the picture, Zhu Ke has seals such as “Appreciation of Qianlong”, “Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight Symbols of Eight
On the hanging screen, there are three sections of blue tapestry inscriptions or poems, two of which are copied with the imperial pen of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, and one section is inscribed with the thoughts of Emperor Qianlong Guan Wang Guxiang on “The Painting of Nurturing Young Children” in the 55th year of Qianlong (1790); A section is a poem written by Emperor Qianlong on the seven unique themes. Another paragraph is a self titled Five Jue poem from Wang’s original painting
This work uses both silk and wool, and the tapestry is complex and exquisite. Emperor Qianlong has repeatedly told his ministers to “not only regard calligraphy and painting works of this kind as ordinary poetry and painting.”.

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