Eight Treasures
Taiwan Museum Collection
Watching the Waterfall from a Pine Shaded Pavilion
Ch’iu Ying (1494-1552)
Ming Dynasty
This painting depicts a scholar pausing for rest in a pavilion by a mountain stream. A boy draws water from the stream to brew tea for his master.
128 cm X 61 cm
Spring Peach Blossoms
Wang Meng(1308-1385)
Yuan Dynasty
In the light of dawn a fisherman floats along a stream surrounded by delicate masses of blossoming peach trees.
157.3 cm X 58.7 cm
A Corner of the West Lake
Hsia Kuei
(12th -13th AD)
Sung Dynasty
A landscape of the famous West Lake showing an embankment with willow trees, flowering bushes and small boats.
107.2 cm X 59.3 cm
Listening to the Rustling of Pines
Ma Lin
(late 12-13th AD)
Sung Dynasty
A scholar sits, eyes fixed and ears poised against the rushing movement of the wind in the pines
226 cm X 110 cm
The Grass Hut at East Mountain
Wang Meng
(1308-1385)
Yuan Dynasty
A cottage and stream border the echeon of mountains
111 cm X 61 cm
Homecoming Ode
Shen Tu
(1357-1434)
Ming Dynasty
Expressing the rejection of wealth and fame in search for self fulfillment and simple joy, this poem was written in 427 by a famous recluse-poet. Calligraphy done in clerical script in the 14th century
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