The painting Travel of the Earth God[地官 出游图]attributed to Zhou Fan in the collection of the Palace Museum is an incomplete scroll;even so,there is a wealth of information worth exploring in terms of both the content and related documents.This article makes a preliminary investigation on the inscriptions,postscripts and seals of the scroll in the Song and Yuan dynasties by combining the records of the scroll in ancient literature and the information of the inscriptions and postscripts on the scroll.According to the records in literature,this scroll entered the imperial palace of Emperor Gaozong in the early Southern Song dynasty;it was inked by Gaozong,and the inscriptions and postscripts were written by Pingxie.Later the painting was taken from the imperial palace and passed to Jia Sidao's collection at the end of the Song dynasty.After the Yuan dynasty,it was circulated through Dadu and Hangzhou successively,and was appreciated and inscribed by many famous officials and collectors of calligraphy and painting in the early Yuan dynasty.On this basis,this article further explores the background and motive of the inscriptions of Pingxie in the Southern Song dynasty,as well as the order,region and approximate time of the inscriptions of different viewers in the early Yuan dynasty.Thus,it can fill in the blank of the scroll's circulation from the Song dynasty to the present,and also provide a research basis for further investigation of the era,theme and the historical implication of the scroll.
Travel of the Earth Godhistory of identification and collectionthe Song and Yuan dynastiesZhou FangMi Dian Zhu Lin
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