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painting / hanging scroll

• Object type

  • painting
  • hanging scroll

• Museum number

  1881,1210,0.87.CH

• Description

  Hanging scroll. Portrait of an official in front of the Forbidden City. Painted in ink and colours on silk. Signature and seal.

• Producer name

  • Claimed to be by: Zhu Bang 朱邦 (seal)

• Culture/period

  • Ming dynasty

• Date

  • 16th century (about)

• Production place

  • Made in: Beijing
  • (Asia,China,Beijing (municipality),Beijing (city))

• Findspot

  • Found/Acquired: China
  • (Asia,China)

• Materials

  • silk

• Technique

  • painted

• Dimensions

  • Height: 170 centimetres (image)
  • Width: 110.8 centimetres (image)
  • Height: 197 centimetres (scroll)
  • Width: 114.5 centimetres (scroll)

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      signature

    • Inscription Position

      above seals, on right side 畫幅右邊款

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      豐溪

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Fengxi

  • • Inscription Type

      seal

    • Inscription Content

      酣齁無夢閒章 (?)

    • Inscription Comment

      Seal in intaglio 白文方印

  • • Inscription Type

      seal

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      朱邦之印

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Zhu Bang zhi yin

    • Inscription Translation

      Seal of Zhu Bang

    • Inscription Comment

      Seal in relief 朱文印

• Curator's comments

  See Roderick Whitfield, 'Some Che School Paintings in the British Museum, 'Burlington Magazine', May 1972, pp. 285-294.'87. Excellent work.'
  'Imperial Tomb.' 'Apotheosis?' 'Seal, Chu Pang (H.C.1500)'
  'Fēng-Ch'i 豐嵠' (unattributed annotations in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)

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• Bibliography

  • Suzuki 1982 E15-044

• Location

  Not on display

• Exhibition history

  Exhibited:

  2014 Sep-2015 Jan, BM WCEC, 'Ming: 50 years that changed China'

• Subjects

  • official
  • architecture

• Associated places

  • Topographic representation of: Forbidden City
  • (Asia,China,Beijing,The Forbidden City)

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Prof William Anderson
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks

• Acquisition date

  1881

• Acquisition notes

  The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  1881,1210,0.87.CH

• Additional IDs

  • Ch.Ptg.144 (Chinese Painting Number)