• Jieziyuan huazhuan sanji (Mustard seed garden manual, third series)
  芥子園畫傳三集

Contributor:

• Chinese Rare Books Project

Publisher:

• [China : s.n., Qing Qianlong, between 1782 and 1795]
• [China : s.n., 清乾隆, between 1782 and 1795]

Edition:

• [Cai se tao yin ben].
• [彩色套印本].

Extent:

• 4 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Format:

• Book

Description:

• In case.
• 書分草蟲花卉, 翎毛花卉譜各二卷.
• 目錄末題鐫"乾隆壬寅仲春月金閶書業堂重鐫珍藏", 乾隆壬寅為一七八二年.
• 蝴蝶裝.
• 框21.3 x 14.5公分, 9行20字, 白口, 四周單邊. 版框在版心處不連.
• 封面鐫"芥子園畫傳三集繡水王宓草安節司直摹古".
• 書名及著者據封面.

Subject:

• Painting, Chinese—Technique
• Painting—Technique
• Zi bu—Yi shu lei—Hua pu.
• 子部—藝術類—畫譜.

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939776283506421

Curator's notes:

• Classical Chinese
  China, between 1782 and 1795, paper

  Originally, folios, with their texts printed on one side, were folded in the middle with the text facing inwards, the blank side outwards: thus blank pages followed text pages, in the so-called “butterfly-binding” style. Considered somewhat undesirable, printers soon began to fold the opposite way, hiding the blank sides. However, this could create problems for illustrations needing a full page; and thus occasionally one still might encounter a butterfly binding, as here in a late painting manual.

  Gest Collection, TC223/709Q vol.10-13

  For further reading

  Sze, Mai-mai (tr. and ed.) The Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting, 1679-1701. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Zhang, Gillian Yanzhuang. “Making a canonical work: a cultural history of the Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting, 1679-1949.” East Asian Publishing and Society 10, no. 1 (2020): 73-113.

Exhibit category:

• From bamboo to printed paper
• The East Asian tradition