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Rather than overtly describing Mushiju (Studio of Wood and Rock) has productive relationship between artist and
chrysanthemums, the poet uses the term been identi! ed as a private workshop in artisan enjoyed during the Kangxi period. A
dong ling (‘eastern hedge’), a reference to Tao Jingdezhen specializing in literati inspired similar brushpot with the same mark and
Yuanming’s (ca. 365-421) ! fth poem titled wares of exceptional quality. A recent article dated 1709 from the Grandidier Collection,
‘Drinking Wine’ in which he describes picking by Pengliang Lu, ‘Where Potter Met Poets, now in the in the Musée Guimet, Paris is
chrysanthemums in his eastern hedge. Magpie A Kangxi Vase with a Poetry Gathering in illustrated in The World’s Great Collections,
and chrysanthemum are a rebus wishing for Jingdezhen’, Arts of Asia, March-April 2017, Oriental Ceramics, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 53.
the happiness of the entire family. The poem pp. 98 -104 identi! es the founder of Mushiju

in turn describes the achievement of this as Zhao Wenzong, a local o# cial who moved
contentment through moonlit rendezvous. comfortably among poets, calligraphers and
The poem is accompanied by seals reading artists of the period. The superlative works
Jizhaotang, Shan xiao, and Mushiju. from this studio illustrate the close and

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