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FOLLOWER OF XIE SHICHEN (1481-1567)
Peach Blossom Spring
The painting ink and colour on paper; mounted with an anonymous
colophon, ink on gold fleck paper, with blank frontispiece, horizontal
handscroll.
Dated guichou year (1553)
謝時臣（款） 桃源圖 設色紙本 手卷
款識：桃源圖。癸丑夏為南羹詞盟，謝時臣。鈐印：謝時臣印
題跋：桃源圖。神僊有無何眇芒， 源之說誠荒唐。流水盤迴山百
轉，生綃數幅垂中堂。武陵太守好事者，題封遠寄南宮下。南宮先生
忻得之，波濤入筆驅文辭。文工畫妙各臻極，異境恍惚移於斯。架巖
鑿谷開宮室，接屋連墻千萬日。嬴顛劉蹶了不聞，地坼天分非所恤。
種 處處惟開花，川原近遠蒸紅霞。初來猶自念鄉邑，歲久此地還成
家。漁舟之子來何所，物色相猜更問語。大蛇中斷喪前王，群馬南渡
開新主。聽終辭絕共悽然，自說經今六百年。當時萬事皆眼見，不知
幾許猶流傳。爭持酒食來相饋，禮數不同樽俎異。月明伴宿玉堂空，
骨冷魂清無夢寐。夜半金雞啁哳鳴，火輪飛出客心驚。人間有累不可
住，依然離別難為情。舡開棹進一回顧，萬里蒼蒼煙水暮。世俗寧知
偽與真，至今傳者武陵人。右昌黎先生題。
The painting: 34cm (13 3/8in) high x 516cm (203 1/8in) wide. The
colophon: 24cm (9 1/2in) high x 108cm (42 1/2in) wide
£3,500 - 4,000
HK$34,000 - 39,000
CNY30,000 - 34,000

Provenance
Bonhams London, 10 July 2006, lot 306, where published as “An
English private collection, purchased by a diplomat in Tianjin

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