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Poems of the Southern Song
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WMET0180
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Odes of the State of Bin
Ma Hezhi (Chinese, ca. 1130–ca. 1170) and assistants
Calligraphy attributed to Emperor Gaozong (Chinese, 1107–1187)
Handscroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk; mid-12th century,
Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1973 1973.121.3
This handscroll is one of a set that illustrates the 305 poems in the Shijing (The Book of Odes), a work traditionally believed to have been compiled by Confucius. The scrolls were made at the court of Gaozong (r. 1127–62), the first emperor of the Southern Song dynasty. The accompanying paintings are the work of Ma Hezhi, a court artist known for his “orchid-leaf” brushstroke, a distinctive type of undulating brush line. The poems illustrated in this scroll are known as the “Odes of the State of Bin,” for they were believed to have been songs from the ancient homeland of the founders of the Zhou dynasty (ca. 1100–256 BCE).
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Odes of the State of Bin
Ma Hezhi (Chinese, ca. 1130–ca. 1170) and assistants
Calligraphy attributed to Emperor Gaozong (Chinese, 1107–1187)
Handscroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk; mid-12th century,
Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1973 1973.121.3
This handscroll is one of a set that illustrates the 305 poems in the Shijing (The Book of Odes), a work traditionally believed to have been compiled by Confucius. The scrolls were made at the court of Gaozong (r. 1127–62), the first emperor of the Southern Song dynasty. The accompanying paintings are the work of Ma Hezhi, a court artist known for his “orchid-leaf” brushstroke, a distinctive type of undulating brush line. The poems illustrated in this scroll are known as the “Odes of the State of Bin,” for they were believed to have been songs from the ancient homeland of the founders of the Zhou dynasty (ca. 1100–256 BCE).
