[Imperial Brush Painting Poetry and Ink]
Imperial brush painting poetry and ink, a set of 9 watts, in order from right to left and from top to bottom, are:
Shen Zhou painting eggplant vegetable poetry and ink, with a diameter of 10.4 centimeters and a thickness of 1.5 centimeters
Wu Li painted landscape poetry and ink, 15.8 cm long, 8.4 cm wide, and 1.4 cm thick
Wang Meng painted forest valleys, clouds, springs, and poetry in ink, with a diameter of 12 centimeters and a thickness of 1.5 centimeters
Wang Meng’s bamboo painting, painting, poetry and ink, 14.1 cm long, 7.1 cm wide, and 1.5 cm thick
Huang Quan painted flowers and birds in poetry and ink, with a length of 11.8 cm, a width of 11.8 cm, and a thickness of 1.5 cm
Wen Zhengming painted pine stone, poetry and ink, 14.6 cm long, 7.6 cm wide, and 1.4 cm thick
Wang Chong painted landscape poetry and ink, 16.5cm long, 7.9cm wide, and 1.4cm thick
Wang Fu’s landscape painting, poetry and ink, 11.6 cm long and 1.5 cm thick
Square pot painting, leaf vegetable painting, poetry and ink, with a diameter of 9.9 cm and a thickness of 1.5 cm
Each Wat has a famous painting on the front and an imperial inscription on the back. Ink has different shapes and sizes, including petal shape, rectangle, circle, regular octagon, etc. Among them, the earliest paintings are “The Painting of Apricot Flowers and Birds” by Huang Quan (903-965) of Shu after the Five Dynasties, and “The Painting of Clouds and Springs in Forest Gullies” and “The Painting of Bamboo Interest” by Wang Meng in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. The remaining paintings are square pots of the Yuan Dynasty, works by Wang Fu, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Wang Chong of the Ming Dynasty, and works by Wu Li of the Qing Dynasty. Emperor Qianlong’s poems were either based on poetry and paintings, or borrowed from them. Inscriptions include five or seven words, as well as regular poems and quatrains. After the poem, the seals are “Qianlong”, “Jishi Yiqing”, “Jishi Linchi”, “De Jiaqu”, and “Qianlong Chen Han”, all of which are the official seals of Emperor Qianlong
Emperor Qianlong had a strong interest in painting and certain attainments. He has collected a large number of famous Chinese paintings from various dynasties, and he also wrote poems and aspirations to the best of them. The production of this set of ink is based on the selection of nine masterpieces by eight painters from the famous paintings inscribed in Hongli’s poems. The ink carvers, based on a few feet long scroll, miniature carved it onto a few inches long ink mold and then made it into ink, expressing the artistic conception of the original painting with skilled techniques
This set of ink has excellent texture and fine ink mold carving, making it a rare treasure among the sets of ink
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