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BIAN DING (ATTRIBUTED TO, YUAN-MING DYNASTY)
Houseboat
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
35 ¬ x 10 in. (90.5 x 25.4 cm.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Three colophons inscribed by Wang Wenzhi, Tang Su, and Xu Ben,
with a total of four seals
One collector’s seal

$20,000-40,000

PROVENANCE
J.M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection, and thence by descent.

LITERATURE
James Cahill, An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: Tang,
Sung, Yuan, Berkeley, 1980, p 317.

Bian Ding, who used the art name Wenjing, was a military man from
Longxi in Gansu province. Little is known about his life, other than that
he was considered a talented calligrapher. Xu Ben (1335-1380) was an
accomplished painter and poet from Suzhou, who spent the end of the
Yuan dynasty as a scholar-hermit. Tang Su (ca. 1328-ca. 1371), a native of
Zhejiang, was a government offcial who was also an accomplished painter,
calligrapher and poet.
元/明 邊定（傳） 屋舟圖 設色紙本 立軸 一七八八年作
題識：（文不錄）。陳留邊定為。畫屋舟圖并題。
鈐印二方
王文治題跋：水竹蕭蕭一畝居，非舟非屋是吾廬。主人合是陶元亮，
□鳥聲中坐讀書。邊定畫世不□□。此幅滿紙士氣□元鎮陳惟兄之
□□唐沈諸家猶有□代人習氣。乾隆戊申（1788年）嘉平丹徒王文治
觀并記。
鈐印：夢樓、王氏禹卿
唐肅、徐賁題跋書法共鈐印二方
項元汴藏印：墨林山人
來源：胡惠春（1911-1995）家族收藏。
出版：高居翰，《中國古畫索引：唐、宋、元部分》，伯克利，1980
年，第317頁。
註：邊定， 字文靜，是一位來自甘肅隴西的武人。他的生平事跡不
詳，只知道他是一位有才華的書法家。徐賁 (1335-1380) 是一位來自
蘇州的名畫家和詩人，元代末期的文人隱士。浙江人唐肅 (約1328-約
1371) 是一位官員，也同時是有成就的·畫家、書法家、及詩人。

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