Mei Qing: Huangshan tu ce (Paintings of Yellow Mountain) by Mei Qing and Palace Museum - 1980

OFFERING: with 16 reproductions of Mei Qing's revered paintings of Yellow Mountain. RARITY: Very Scarce. Worldwide, outside of China, there are twelve institutional holdings including Harvard, Yale and University of California, Berkeley. PAGINATION: Complete; 20 leaves printed on one side, title sheet, introduction sheet and 18 mounted plates, two with preface text and sixteen with color reproductions of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain). FORMAT: As issued, leaves loose in publisher's pictorial cream portfolio with title slip, upper side with detail of a Mei Qing painting. SIZE: Portfolio: 379 x 264 mm / Plates: Size varies. Average size: 324 x 191 mm. CONDITION: Mounted Text Plates: Fine / Mounted Illustration Plates: bright and clean, Nos. 4 and 6 with gentle top corner crease, no. 14 with air bubble near top corner. / Mount Leaves: top corner and fore-edge bends. / Portfolio: Upper side: some top edge wear and slight bottom edge wear. Lower side: soiling and some edge buckling. Inside: stain spot, vertical cockling and some edge buckling, fold-over edges with some wear. / Title Slip: rubs, tiny soil spots near foot. HUANG SHAN: World famous mountain range with 72 peaks in Southern Anhui province, named by imperial decree in 747 AD and known for its 'sea of clouds' and masses of pine trees and unusually shaped peaks carved by glaciers. A sacred site for Buddhists and Taoists, it is associated with the temple founded by Zen master, Zhiman, later known as, Xiangfu Monastery. It became a pilgrimage site for artists, poets, and scholars, and with the ascendency of the Manchu, a refuge for the Ming court. MEI QING [1623-1697]: was born into a family of scholars in Anhui province. After fleeing Manchu troops in 1642, he traveled widely, coming to Yellow Mountain in 1671 and returning in 1690. He had a long-term collaborative relationship with the painter, Shitao, author of the treatise, "Huayu lu" (Remarks on Painting). His later life was devoted to painting Yellow Mountain from memory and his surviving works are known from album leaves and hanging scrolls that chiefly date from 1690-95. REFERENCE: Shadows of Mt. Huang, edited by James Cahill. Grove Dictionary, v. 21, p. 60. ADDITIONAL IMAGES: by request.