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Source Description
The poem included on this vase was composed by the poet and essayist Du Mu (803–852) and complements the accompanying landscape scene. Chinese scholars favored objects containing both painting and text. The different ways that the image and the word relate to each other can be a source of delight and play for the scholar.
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Document identity
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31538
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Vase with Landscape and Du Mu's Poem
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Source metadata
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title
Vase with Landscape and Du Mu's Poem
description
The poem included on this vase was composed by the poet and essayist Du Mu (803–852) and complements the accompanying landscape scene. Chinese scholars favored objects containing both painting and text. The different ways that the image and the word relate to each other can be a source of delight and play for the scholar.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1736-1795 (Qing dynasty; reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736–95))
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CC0
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en
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Ceramics
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cm
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17.8
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10.5
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Overall: H: 7 × W: 4 1/8 in. (17.8 × 10.5 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Translation] ""Spring South of the River"" by Du Mu [Tu Mu] (803-852): Orioles call for a thousand li
green's reflected in the river; Waterside village; hillside rempart; wine; a banner in the wind. In the time of the southern dynasties
there were four hundred and eighty temples; How many pavilions there are now in the mist and rain.
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Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
reign
Qianlong (1736-1795)
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porcelain, overglaze enamels
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2514
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