Lot 47
AFTER ZHAO BOJU (CHINESE, 1180-1182)
CHINESE INK PAINTING OF LANDSCAPE
Auction: Brushes Across Empire | Wed 11th March from 10am | Lots 1 to 179
Description
趙伯駒款 山水圖 水墨設色絹本 立軸
畫內款識一：櫻桃垂實竹抽笋，輕風暖日簾櫳靜。 闔閭城外柳含煙，西子湖邊花弄影，清明時候炊煙冷。月光又到梧桐井，酒人不負頭上巾。醉春歸去踏紅塵。丹丘柯九思題
畫內鈐印一：丹丘柯九思章
畫內款識二：春水生暮潮急露，零月白花枝溼。美人弄春如不及，芳草芊芊映天碧。寶馬香車亂郊邑，陌頭行遍山頭立。人生世上若飄萍，及時行樂毋瑩瑩。武寧盧充賴
畫內鈐印二：盧充賴
畫內款識三：千里
畫內鈐印三：天藾閣
畫外款識：趙伯駒字千里，宋太祖七世孫，人物樓臺界畫極工細之妙，爲宋畫大家。此幀有元柯學士題、明項墨林印，真跡無疑。藏吾家亦近百年，今春至九龍勘界知。任廷輔政精賞中國書畫，手題此以贈之，爲他日相思之劵。光緒己亥二月王存善記
畫外鈐印：王▢（滿文）
簽條書：宋趙千里工筆樓臺真跡。元柯九思題
ink and slight colour on silk, painted in the Tang blue and green style, inscription top right signed ‘Ke Jiusi’ (1290-1343), a Yuan dynasty painter, sealed, inscription top left signed ‘Lu Chonglai’, sealed, left centre margin signed ‘Qian Li’, courtesy name of Zhao Boju, sealed top left ‘Tian Lai Ge’, hanging scroll
Dimensions
187cm x 33.5cm
Provenance
Presented to Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937) by Wang Cunshan (1849-1916) in 1899;
Gifted to his daughter, Mary Stewart Lockhart (1894-1985);
Presented by the above to George Watson’s College, Edinburgh in 1967;
Lent to the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh (2003-2025).
Exhibition:
London, Betty Joel Gallery, Chinese Paintings from the Collection of Sir James Stewart Lockhart, 18 June-18 July 1927, catalogue no. 4;
London, Betty Joel Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Chinese Imperial and Other Paintings, November 1937, catalogue no. 6;
Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Art Centre [Talbot Rice Gallery], Chinese Paintings, 15 March-14 April 1971, catalogue no. 34.
Footnote
On the mount with inscriptions signed and a seal by Wang Cunshan (1849-1916), a book collector of the late Qing dynasty and early Republic period. The inscriptions indicate that this painting was given to Sir James Stewart Lockhart by Wang Cunshan in the Yihai year of the Guangxu period, corresponding to 1899AD.
Sold to Benefit George Watson's College, Edinburgh
捐助愛丁堡喬治沃森學院義賣