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'Along the River during Winter's First Snow': A Tenth-Century Handscroll and Early Chinese Narrative

05/1972 | 830 | 114

Pages: 294-303

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Author:

Hay, John (Hay, John)

Subjects

artists:

Zhao Gan, act. before 975 CE

artists:

Wang Wei, 8th c.

artists:

Ma Ho Chih

artists:

Xu Daoning, c. 970-c. 1052

dates:

0900-0999

museums and institutions:

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

places:

China / Taipei / Taiwan

subjects:

Chinese painting / Attributions

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Landscapes (visual works)

subjects:

Taoism / Aesthetics

subjects:

Poetry

subjects:

Literature

subjects:

Fishermen / Iconography

subjects:

Confucianism

Illustrations

Attributed works:

29. Along the River during Winter's First Snow, by Chao Kan. Second Half of Tenth Century, Nanking, Kiangsu Province. Ink and Colours on Silk, 30 by 376.5 cm. (Whole Scroll; Six Sections Here Illustrated). (National Palace Museum, Taipel.)

Attributed works:

30. Along the River during Winter's First Snow, by Chao Kan. Second Half of Tenth Century, Nanking, Kiangsu Province. Ink and Colours on Silk, 30 by 376.5 cm. (Whole Scroll; Four Sections Here Illustrated). (National Palace Museum, Taipei.)

Attributed works:

31. Detail of the Chao Kan Scroll Illustrated in Fig.29: Travellers.

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32. Detail of the Chao Kan Scroll Illustrated in Fig.30: Winch Nets.

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33. Detail of the Chao Kan Scroll Illustrated in Fig.30: Fish Trap.

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34. Detail of the Chao Kan Scroll Illustrated in Fig.30: Cooking Supper.

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35. Two Details from Fishing in a Mountain River, by Hsü Tao-ning. Late Eleventh Century. (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City.)

Attributed works:

36. Section from Fishermen, by Chin Wen-ting. End of Fourteenth Century. (Hua Family, Hou-chen-shang-chai Collection.)

Attributed works:

37. Section from Illustrations to Mao's Edition of the Classic of Poetry, Verse from the Hsiao-ya, 'In the South are Fine Fishes', by Ma Ho-chih. Twelfth Century. (Boston Museum of Fine Arts.)

Non-western art unattributed:

38. Hunting and Harvesting. Second Century A. D., Szechwan Province. Tile with Bas-Relief.

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