Main Title: Stele re-engraved with Drum-shaped Stone Blocks script (Stone Drum Inscriptions) -- the 2nd drum
Image Title: f. 159b: The Idol Temple at Somnath, attributed to Murad (detail) 21092304
- Holding institution:
- Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
- Data provider:
- Harvard University Library
- Title:
- Main Title: Stele re-engraved with Drum-shaped Stone Blocks script (Stone Drum Inscriptions) -- the 2nd drum
Image Title: f. 159b: The Idol Temple at Somnath, attributed to Murad (detail) 21092304 - Alternative title:
- Tian yi ge shi gu wen ke shi
Qing Ruan Yuan fu Tian yi ge ben
Chong ke shi gu wen (di er gu)
Shi gu wen
Lie jie
Yong yi ke shi
Shiguwen - Date:
- 19th. century?
- Description:
- Rubbing of inscriptions on Drum-shaped Stone Blocks recording hunting events. Postscript with commentary by Qing scholar Weng Fanggang (1733-1818) and his 2 sons (Shupei and Shukung).Culture: ChineseMaterials/Techniques: paper, ink, intaglioNote: Citation/references: Jin shi cui bian, 1805. v. 1, p. 1-37. ; Beijing tu shu guan cang hua xiang ta ben hui bian, 1993, v. 1, p. 1-5 (Shi gu wen). ; Zhongguo mei shu quan ji, Shu fa zhuan ke pian, v. 1, Shang Zhou zhi Qin Han, 1987, pl. 24, p. 33-36; p. 25. (Shi gu wen) ; Zhong hua shu xue da ci dian, 2000, p. 163. (Shi Zhou). ; Zhong hua shu xue da ci dian, 2000, p. 185. (Shi gu wen). ; Zhong hua shu xue da ci dian, 2000, p. 308. (Ruan Yuan).Note: General note: Script style: Da zhaun. ; Shi gu wen (shiguwen): Stone Drum Inscriptions, recordedly written by Shi Zhou (active 827-782 BC), were for royal edicts and decrees during the late Western Zhou (1100-771 BC) and adopted in Qin State during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC.) ; 10 "stone drums" were discovered in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) at Sanchouyuan, Tianxing (at present-day Sanchouyuan, Fengxiang, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province) and later installed in the Confucian Temple in Fengxing, Shaanxi. These original 10 Drum-shaped Stone Blocks are currently kept in the Palace Museum (Forbidden City) of Beijing. Each stone block, contains a poem of 4 character lines depicting the ruler of a state on a big hunt. Thus also named Lie jie, hunting stone tablets. The characters are written in a style called dazhuan (big zhuan-- big seal style). However, many of the characters have disappeared or eroded by weathering, and one of the "drums" has even become completely devoid of any engraving. A duplicate set of these 10 Drum-shaped Stone Blocks made in 1790 under commission from Emperor Qianlong (Qing Kaozong, reign 1735-1795) and placed in Piyong (the central building, where the emperor gave lectures, in the Imperial College in Beijing). This set of duplicate blocks is currently located in Guozijian (Imperial College of Beijing; also called Taixue, the highest state educational institute ) in Beijing. ; Rubbings are from tablets that were engraved by Wu Housheng from calligraphy hand-copied by Ruan Yuan after "Tian yi ge" edition of Shiguwen. Many other editions were engraved through time both in stone tablet and woodblock print forms.Note: Historical: Stone tablet date: 2nd. yr. of Jiaqing, Qing Dynasty (1797).Note: Provenance: Rubbing originally collected by Ruan Yuan(1764-1849), famous Qing scholar who studied Shang and Zhou period bronzes.
- Type:
- still image
rubbings - Type (Narrower):
- Other Images
- Type (Broader):
- Image
- Subject:
- drums
inscriptions
stones
hunting
kings
calligraphy
tablets
blocks (shaped masses)
emperors
announcements
copies (derivative objects)
imperial palaces
colleges
families - Extent:
- 43 x 73 cm
- Rights:
- (CC BY-NC-SA) Attribution: Harvard Fine Arts Library, Special Collections SCW2016.07911
- Identifier:
- W286920_URN-3:FHCL:33725035
- Is part of:
- Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photographic Collection