Jiangcun xiao xia lu 江邨銷夏錄 [Records from Yangzi River Village’s [Herb Hall], made to Pass...
225 folding leaves. Three juan in one vol. 8vo, orig. yellow silk over wrappers, new stitching. . [Japan]: Prefaces dated 1693, but a facsimile edition published in Japan, [1800].
This is a record of paintings and calligraphy by Gao Shiqi 高士奇 (1645-1703), who completed it in the summer of 1693 in the main hall (caotang 草堂 or Herb Hall), of his refurbished old mansion in Pinghu, Zhejiang. Gao, a Zhejiang man of relatively humble origins, had literary talents that earned him a job in the civil bureaucracy in Beijing, where he came to the attention of important figures and subsequently... More