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清嘉慶至道光 木刻梅花圖題詩臂擱 《二樵王䱷寫》、《受笙刻》、《雨生題》款 「耳之」、「二樵」、「雨生」、「吳氏珍藏」印
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- 《二樵王䱷寫》、《受笙刻》、《雨生題》款
「耳之」、「二樵」、「雨生」、「吳氏珍藏」印 - zitan
雨生都督大人教正，二樵王䲣寫，受笙刻。映月霜痕重，晗流素影斜，孤山林處士，繞屋盡梅花。雨生題。
拍品資料及來源
Moonlight so bright its frosty traces form layers,
And so lights the stream it casts moon shadows aslant.
In lonely mountains lives Reclusive Scholar Lin,
His cottage encircled by plum blossoms without end.
'Reclusive Scholar Lin’ refers to Lin Bu (967-1028), personal name Junfu, a native of Qiantang, a famous poet known for his finely crafted regulated verses. He was also known for his passion for plum blossoms. The poetic inscriptions here make allusions to the poem Shanyuan xiaomei (“Little Plums in a Mountain Garden”) written by Lin Bu.
The current wristrest was made as a gift for Tang Yifen (1778-1853), sobriquet Yusheng ('Rain Life'), who became a vice-general known by his title Dudu ('Commander-in-chief'). When Taiping rebels sacked Nanjing, Tang committed suicide to show his loyalty to the Qing court and was given the posthumous title Zhenmin ('loyalty and grief') by the Xianfeng Emperor. Tang’s biography is included in the Qing shigao ['Draft history of the Qing dynasty'], vol. 399.
Wang Yu (dates unknown), personal Erqiao, is mentioned in Guangxu Guian xian zhi ('Local Gazettes of Gui'an Composed in the Era of Emperor Guangxu'), vol. 37, as a contemporary of the artist Xi Yi (1771-1854), and a recognised painter, poet and calligrapher. Chen Shousheng (1779-1828), sobriquet Shousheng ('Receiving a Wind-Pipe'), a native of Haining of Zhejiang Province, was a poet and painter known for his calligraphy and seal carving. This wristrest would likely have been made in the early 19th century while Tang and both artists were alive, with 1828 as the latest possible date.