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(bottom right corner)\r\n\t\"Zijing\" 子京, oval relief (left, 3rd from bottom)\r\n\t\"Xiang Yuanbian yin\" 項元汴印, square relief (left, 2nd from bottom)\r\n\t\"Molin shanren\" 墨林山人, square intaglio (bottom left corner)\r\nQianlong emp. (r. 1736-95), 8 seals\r\n\t\" Qianlong yulan zhi bao\" 乾隆御覽之寳, oval relief (upper right corner)\r\n\t\"Yangxindian jian cang bao\" 養心殿鑑藏印, tall rect. relief (right, 3rd from top)\r\n\t\" Qianlong jian [shang]\" 乾隆鑑賞, round intaglio (right, above inscription)\r\n\t\"Qian\" 乾, square, 1/2 relief 1/2 intagio; & \"Long\" 隆, square 1/2 intaglio 1/2 relief (respectively top & bottom, below last line of inscription)\r\n\t\"Yi zi sun\" 宜子孫, square intaglio (2nd from both top & right)\r\n\t\"Sanxitang jing jian xi,\" 三希堂精鑑璽 tall rect., relief (top, 2nd from right)\r\n\t\"Shiqu baoji,\" 石渠寶笈 tall rect., relief (left, top)\r\n\t \r\nJiaqing 嘉慶 emperor (r. 1796-1820)\r\n\t\" Jiaqing yulan zhi bao,\" 嘉慶御覽之寳 oval relief (top, 3rd from right)\r\n\t\"Shiqu jijian\" 石渠繼鑑, sq. relief (right, 3rd from bottom)\r\nXuantong 宣統 emperor (r. 1909-1911)\r\n\t\" Xuantong yulan zhi bao\" 宣統御覽之寳, square relief (right, 2nd from top)\r\nChen Rentao陳仁濤 (1906-1968)\r\n\t\"Jingui, guobao wu shuang\" 金匱國寶無雙 oval, part relief, part intaglio (top, 2nd from left)\r\n\t\" Jingui baocang, Chen shi Rentao\" 金匱寶藏陳氏仁濤 coin-shaped relief (left, middle)\r\n\t\"Rentao qiyuan\" 仁濤奇緣 oval relief (bottom left)\r\n\t\"Wu shuang\" 无雙 square relief (left, 4th from bottom) [Chen's?] \r\n\t\"Jinguishi jing jian xi\" 金匱室精鑒璽 square relief (bottom, 2nd from left)","inscribed":"Qianlong emperor (Qing dyn., r. 1736–1795), dated 1758","signed":"signed (lower right branch; spurious): Huang Quan 黃筌 [903–68]","catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"","restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1998-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[],"makers":[{"id":2018,"displayname":"Anonymous","displaydate":null,"datebegin":0,"dateend":0,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Anonymous","displayorder":4}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"&nbsp;–1998&nbsp;John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998. <br>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"A single bird on a flowering branch, this composition exemplifies the genre of early bird-and-flower painting. The artist was particularly interested in color, patterns, surface texture, and a sense of decorative richness. In the eighteenth-century imperial painting catalogue <em>Shiqu baoji</em>, this painting is recorded as an authentic work by the tenth-century master Huang Quan (903–968), whose spurious signature is hidden in the tree branch along the lower-right margin. 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