LOT DETAILS

Materials:

handscroll, ink on gold-flecked paper with a silk brocade wrapper

Size Notes:

Shi Gu Ge 54.5 By 790.5 Cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed Zhang Zhao with three seals of the artist, an imperial frontispiece by the Qianlong emperor entitled Gui ci shen bi 'A Magnificent Verse Written with a Divine Brush' , dated the gengxu year corresponding to 1790, with 33 seals of the Qianlong emperor, and one seal by the Xuantong emperor

Literature:

Shiqu baoji xubian ('Sequel to The Precious Collection of the Stone Canal Pavilion), pp. 691-692.; Gugong yi shi shuji shuhua mulu zhi yi ('An Index of Books, Paintings and Calligraphy Lost from the Forbidden City', Part I), repr., National Palace Museum, Beijing, 1946, p. 29.; Chen Rentao, et al., Gugong yi shi shuhua mu jiaozhu ('Notes on Paintings and Calligraphy Lost from the Forbidden City'), Hong Kong, May 1956, p. 59.

Provenance:

Sotheby's New York, 5th December 1985, lot 124.