Carved fan with plum-blossom painting

Inscription: Artists’ inscriptions, signatures, and seals

1 Jin Xiya 金西厓 (1890–1979), 1 column in clerical script, undated; 1 seal (carved on the outer rib of the fan):

[Signed] Xiya [Seal]: Jinbo

西厓 [印]：金缽

2. Shen Shilong 沈石龍 (active mid-20th c.), 20 columns in semi-cursive script, dated 1942; 2 seals:

[The transcription of Zhou Mi’s 周密 (1232–1298) ci-poem “Shuying meiying 疏影梅影” (Reflections of the blossoming plum) is not translated.]

Done at the request of Mr. Jiyan [Jin Xiya]. Shilong in the spring of the renwu year (1942). [Seals]: Shilong hua mei, Shen

冰條凍葉，又橫斜照水，一花初發。素壁秋屏，招得芳魂，彷彿玉容明滅。疏疏滿地珊瑚冷，全誤卻、撲花幽蝶。甚美人忽到窓前，鏡裏好春難折。閒想孤山舊事，浸清漪，倒映千樹殘雪。暗裏東風，可慣無情，攪碎一簾香月。輕粧誰寫崔徽面，認隱約，煙綃重叠。記夢囘，紙帳殘燈，瘦倚數枝清絕。

季言先生雅令。壬午春日，石龍。[印]：石龍畫梅、沈

3. Shao Gang 邵岡 (20th c.), 25 columns in standard script, dated 1942; 1 seal:

[The transcription of three poems by Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037–1101) is not translated.]

Written for Jiyan [Jin Xiya], my elder, for his correction on the first day of autumn of the renwu year (1942) by Shao Gang. [Seal]: Shao Gang

從來蘇李得名雙，只恐前齊笑陋邦。
詩似懸河供不辦，故欺張籍隴頭瀧。
簿書鼛鼓不知春，佳句相呼賴故人。
寒食德公方上冢，歸來誰主復誰賓。
巡城已困塵埃眯，執撲仍遭蟣蝨緣。
欲脫布衫攜素手，試開病眼點黃連。[1]

為愛鵝溪白繭光，掃殘雞距紫豪鋩。
世間那有千尋竹，月落庭空影許長。[2]

嵗月翩翩下坂輪，歸來杏子已生仁。
深紅落盡東風悪，柳絮榆錢不當春。
火冷餳稀杏粥稠。[3]

壬午立秋日書呈季言老伯誨正。邵岡 [印]:邵岡

4. Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 (1894–1968), 3 columns in standard script, undated; 1 seal (carved on the outer rib of the fan):

[The transcription of Meng Haoran’s (689–740) poem is not translated.]

Meng Haoran’s poem “Wan po Xunyang” (Evening mooring in Xunyang). [Signed] Wu Hufan [Seal]: Wu

挂席幾千里，名山都未逢。
泊舟潯陽郭，始見香爐峰。
嘗讀遠公傳，永懷廬外蹤。
東林精舎近，日暮坐聞鐘。

孟浩然，“晚泊潯陽”。吳湖帆 [印]：吳


[1] 蘇軾，“寒食日答李公擇三絕次韻”
[2] 蘇軾，“文與可有詩見寄云：待將一段鵝溪绢，掃取寒梢萬尺長。次韻答之”
[3] 蘇軾，“次韻田國博部夫南京見寄二絕.” The last three lines of the poem are omitted.

Jin Xiya Chinese, (the artist), by descent to his heirs; thence sold to MMA