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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Zhou Wenju Creator Qualifier: after a design by Creator Nationality: Chinese Creator Role: Artist Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: Zhou Wenju Title: Ladies of the Court Title Type: Primary View: Detail Creation Start Date: 1100 Creation End Date: 1140 Creation Date: 1100-1140 Object Type: Paintings Classification Term: Painting Materials and Techniques: handscroll, ink and color on silk Dimensions: Overall: 28.3cm x 168.5cm Inscriptions: 1 colophon and 13 seals: 1 colophon and 1 seal of Chang Ch'eng (12th c.); 12 seals unidentified.Colophon by Chang Ch'eng:[This is] Chou Wen-chü's picture In the Palace. Women and children are numbered eighty with a single man. All are drawn to life, but these do not include things such as the cosmetic equipment, musical instruments, basins, pots, fans, chairs, mattresses, parakeets, dogs, and a butterfly. Wen-chü was a native of Chü-jung. He was a painter-in-attendance in the Hanlin Academy in the Southern T'ang Dynasty. His paintings of genteel ladies are close to Chou Fang in style, with greater delicacy and beauty. Once he painted a picture of the "southern villa" for the last emperor of Southern T'ang which was considered a supreme masterpiece of the time. Later on, the painting was presented to the court and was ordered to be kept in the Imperial Library. The picture In the Palace is said to be a genuine work [by Chou Wen-chü]. It was in the family collection of the former Lord of the Imperial Sacrifice, Chu Tsai. Someone made a copy and presented [it to me]. The woman dressing up her hair in a high chignon has been so since the T'ang Dynasty. In this scroll [the ladies are depicted] in plump beauty and in long undergarments and skirts. This is the style of Chou Fang. When I was in Chiao-nan I saw in Tuan-ch'i at the home of a descendant of the first emperor of the Ch'en Dynasty an emperor's scroll from his family collection. The attending court ladies dress their hair in a high chignon more or less similar to this. But the maidservants dress their hair into two large loops hanging down between the shoulder and the neck. Although these were unattractive, they looked real. The house of Li called itself Southern T'ang. Consequently, their style of dressing was adopted mostly from the custom of the T'ang period. However, their high sense of fashion actually followed the tradition of the Six Dynasties. When the painters say that in examining ancient pictures one should first investigate [the style ofl dressing, furnishings, and carriages, this is what they meant. This is written by Tan-yen-chu-shih in the fifth month of the keng-shen year in the Shao-hsing era [1140]. trans. WKH AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1976.1 Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund Rights: http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: The University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania. Style or Period: China, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) AMICA ID: CMA_.1976.1 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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