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Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and CalligraphyIllustrated by Hu Zhengyan first edition printed in 1633 The Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is one of the earliest and finest examples of color printing from China. The book, which served as both luxury object and guide for the aspiring painter, compiles familiar images from Chinese art, especially flowers, rocks, birds, and bamboo. Mounted on a sheet of japan paper. The edges are quite brittle and have torn in places. The central fold has discolored where it was joined. Small tear up right. An exceptionally rare print. The publication history of the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual is a complicated one; I am not an expert and I’ve not been able to identify the edition of this print with certainty. See below for the Sotheby’s catalogue essay that accompanied the auction of the only near-complete edition (a later printing from the mid 1700s). Sheet 9.5 x 10.5 inches Provenance: from the collection of the artist Philip Pearlstein, who was also an avid collector of prints and antiquities. “The peak of technical achievement in Ming woodblock illustration was the production of colour illustrations. The process, known as ‘taoban’ (‘set of blocks’), involved the cutting of a separate block for each colour (up to ten blocks, each for a different colour, might be required for a single illustration)… This is the most important of the early colour-printed woodblock books, and it is the first of the painting manuals to use colour.” (Rawson, The British Museum Book of Chinese Art).The Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting was conceived by Hu Zhengyan, a skilled painter, calligrapher, seal carver, papermaker, and printer in Nanjing. “He persuaded some thirty painters and one hundred twenty poet/calligraphers to contribute designs. The resulting 356 leaves were organized into eight volumes, each focused on a category of nature studies: orchids, bamboo, plums, ink flowers (round compositions), scholar’s rocks, birds, and fruit, along with a general introductory volume. The series, possibly begun as early as 1619, was completed and published in 1633. Hu personally supervised the carving of the blocks and oversaw the printing, and he is given credit for introducing history-making innovations that served to make a woodblock print more closely resemble a hand-brushed painting. Shading, achieved by partially wiping color off an inked block, captures the effect of washes and varying degrees of pressure of the brush, while overprinting (overlapping different tones or hues of ink) produced a broader and more nuanced palette of colors” (Splashes of Color: Chinese Woodblock Prints from the You Wei Du Zhai Collection, Portland Art Museum, 2016).Thomas Ebrey’s “The Editions, Superstates, and States of the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting” (2010) identifies ten editions and superstates of the Ten Bamboo Manual. The first edition, using the original woodblocks for the pictorial leaves, comprises four “superstates.” The first superstate was printed from 1633 to about 1703, and the second appeared from 1703 through circa 1775 when a one-page advertisement was appended, as in the present example. The third superstate was printed from around 1790 to 1879, and finally the fourth superstate appeared with a cover page bearing the date 1879. The other six editions, all from the 19th century, are recuttings. Examples of the Ten Bamboo Studio are routinely defective or fragmentary, with no known complete copies of the first superstate.“Many of the extant early copies of the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection were collected by Westerners with a fondness for and a tradition of collecting prints, and today copies of the book are found in many Western museums and libraries. Some museums in the West with major Chinese art collections have early leaves from the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection, while others have only late, inferior copies. In East Asia neither the Palace Museums in Taipei and Beijing nor the Shanghai Museum has early copies” (Ebrey).The Ten Bamboo Studio is divided into eight sections: Miscellany (Paine’s vol. I), Orchids (II), Bamboo (III), Plums (IV), Round Fans (V), Stones (VI), Fruit (VIII), and Birds (VIII). Ebrey writes, “The Ten Bamboo Studio Collection consists of a pair of fascicles for each of eight subjects, with ten pictures in most fascicles; for seven of the eight subjects each picture is accompanied by a matching poem written out by a master calligrapher. The collection also includes additional leaves illustrating painting motifs, a general introduction to the whole work, as well as a preface to each subject.”We are grateful to Thomas Ebrey for analyzing the contents of the present set. He notes, “Most of the leaves of the full set are there. Only the Orchid volume was completely missing, and it is the least appealing and the one whose blocks held up most poorly.” The present set, bound in four volumes, does not include the orchids but contains about 90% of the remaining leaves. A list of contents is available on request.

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