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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Paintingfront

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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the second of three surviving volumes from a five volume Qing dynasty (1645-1911) edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular opening illustrates the method for painting reeds and rushes. These reeds appear in the opening section of Xu Bing’s scroll. He has reproduced only the first four characters of the text, which discusses the role of reeds and rushes in paintings of fishing and fishermen.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (probable place of publication)
    Date
    Qing Dynasty (1645 - 1911)
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Material and technique
    print; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 26.5 x 16.1 x 0.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 26.2 x 28.2 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed,
    bound
    Object type index
    visual representation › print,
    communications equipment › book
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.3

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 81 on p. 164, pp. 151, 165, illus. p. 164 fig. 81

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