{"type":"artobject","objectid":42737,"objectnumber":"2006-31","sortnumber":"2006   31","displaytitle":"Ink Prunus","department":"Asian Art","classification":"Paintings","datebegin":1808,"dateend":1808,"datecomputed":1808,"daterange":"A.D. 1800-1850","displaydate":"1808","medium":"Hanging scroll; finger-painted ink on paper","dimensions":"Painting: 135.3 x 70.3 cm. (53 1/4 x 27 11/16 in.)\r\nMount: 224 x 84.7 cm. (88 3/16 x 33 3/8 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of Robert L. Poster, Class of 1962, and Amy Poster, in honor of Wen C. Fong, \r\nClass of 1951 and Graduate School Class of 1958, and Constance Tang Fong","markings":"5 seals\r\nTag [Sotheby's] attached to rolled scroll: 139\r\n\r\nArtist seals:\r\n\"Wan Shanglin yin\"萬上遴印, square intaglio (right, upper)\r\n\"Wei wu ming zhi tu qi\" 爲無名指吐氣, tall rectangular relief (right, 2nd from top)\r\n\r\nCollectors' seals","inscribed":"5-line inscription; dated wu chen zi yue\r\n\r\n年歸氣新，搖云動塵。梅花特早，偏能識春。或承陽而發金，乍雜雪而被銀。吐艷四照之林，舒榮五衢之路。既玉綴而珠離，且冰懸而雹布。葉嫩出而未成，枝抽心而插故。標半落而飛空，香隨風而遠度\r\n\r\n\"The year turns, the ether is new,\r\nRousing the plants and stirring the earth.\r\nThe plum breaks into blossom before other trees,\r\nShe alone has the gift of recognizing spring.\r\nNow, receiving yang, she brings forth gold,\r\nNow, mingling with snow, she wears a cloak of silver.\r\nShe exhales glamor and lights up the grove on all four sides,\r\nShe spreads splendor at the meeting of five roads,\r\nAs jades are joined and pearls strewn,\r\nSo ice is hung and hail spread.\r\nTender leaves sprout, not yet formed;\r\nBranches pull out fresh shoots and stick them onto old twigs,\r\nPetals from the treetop fall halfway and fly in the air,\r\nSweet scent goes with the wind to faraway places.\"\r\n\r\n\r\nPoem composed by Xiao Gang (蕭綱，Emperor Jianwen of Liang 梁簡文帝, 503-551, and the translation was done by Hans H. Fränkel (1916 – 2003) 傅漢思; pinyin: Fù Hànsī, a German-American sinologist.","signed":"Signed: 輞岡上遴 “Wanggang Shanglin”","catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"photo: Masatsugu Nokubo","restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2006-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Ink Prunus","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":1645,"displayname":"Wan Shanglin 萬上遴","displaydate":"1739–1813","datebegin":1739,"dateend":1813,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Wan Shanglin 萬上遴, 1739–1813","displayorder":3}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<font color=\"#7030a0\"><span lang=\"EN\">&nbsp;–1985&nbsp;Sotheby’s auction (New York, NY), sold to Robert L. Poster and Amy Poster (New York, NY), 1985.<br>1985–2006&nbsp;Robert L. Poster and Amy Poster (New York, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2006.<br></span></font><font color=\"#7030a0\"></font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nOn this finger-painting, the artist transcribed a poem by the Emperor Jianwen of Liang (503–551):</P><I>\r\nThe year turns, the ether is new,<BR>Rousing the plants and stirring the earth.<BR>The plum breaks into blossom before other trees,<BR>She alone has the gift of recognizing spring.<BR>Now, receiving yang, she brings forth gold,<BR>Now, mingling with snow, she wears a cloak of silver.</P>\r\nShe exhales glamor and lights up the grove on all four sides,<BR>She spreads splendor at the meeting of five roads,<BR>As jades are joined and pearls strewn,</P>\r\nSo ice is hung and hail spread.<BR>Tender leaves sprout, not yet formed;<BR>Branches pull out fresh shoots and stick them onto old twigs,<BR>Petals from the treetop fall halfway and fly in the air,<BR>Sweet scent goes with the wind to faraway places.</P></I>\r\n(translation by Hans H. 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