Unknown Artist
- Title
- Official seal
- Place of origin
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China
- Year
- 18th century
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- carved soapstone
- Dimensions
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overall height 15.0cm; base 11.5 x 11.5cm
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs Joan Rogers 1990
- Accession number
- 129.1990
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Inscribed on one side in ancient seal script is a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Zhang Ji (died 780) entitled "Anchored at night by maple bridge':
'The moon sets, the crows caw, hoar frost is in the air,
By the maples at the riverside twinkles the light of the fishermen's boats as I take my troubled rest.
Outside the city of Soochow [Suzhou] stands the Han Shan Monastery
And at midnight there comes to me in my boat the tolling of the temple bell'[Four characters of the original poem are missing in the inscription]
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, March 1990.
- Bibliography (1)
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Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), Art of the Brush - Chinese & Japanese painting calligraphy, Sydney, 1995, 7.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Art of the brush, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 23 Sep 1995–12 Nov 1995.
