Bamboo copied after Wen Tong

Inscription: Artist's inscription and signature (2 columns in semi-cursive script):

On the winter solstice of the jiyou year during the Xining era [1069], Wen Tong, Yuke, from Bajun [in present-day Sichuan Province].
On the Duanyang festival [fifth day of the fifth lunar month] of the guiwei year during the Zhizheng era [1343] Ke Jiusi, Danqiu, made this copy.
熙寧己酉冬至日，巴郡文同與可。
至正癸未端陽節，丹丘柯九思臨。

Artist's seals

Xixun 錫訓
Ke shi Jingzhong 柯氏敬仲
Yunzhen Zhai 縕真齋

Label strips

1. Unidentified artist, 1 column in standard script, undated:

元柯九思倣文與可竹枝

2. Bi Long 畢瀧 (1730–1797), 2 columns in standard script, undated; 1 seal:

元柯丹丘臨文湖州倒垂竹枝真跡，真定梁蕉林藏本，無上神品。 [印]： 畢瀧鑒賞

Collectors' seals

Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 (1620–1691)
棠邨審定
蕉林

Bi Long 畢瀧 (1730–1797)
畢澗飛祕笈印

Feng Gongdu 馮恕 (1867–1948)
公度所藏宋元名跡
馮公度囗囗囗

Wang Jiqian 王季遷 (己千，C. C. Wang, 1907–2003)
王氏季遷珍藏之印

Unidentified
可竹家藏珍玩子孫寶之

Marking:

C. C. Wang Family , New York, by 1954; Oscar L. Tang Family , New York (until 2006; donated to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The New Chinese Galleries: An Inaugural Installation," 1997.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C.Wang Family Collection," September 2, 1999–January 9, 2000.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cultivated Landscapes: Reflections of Nature in Chinese Painting with Selections from the Collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill," September 10, 2002–February 9, 2003.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Great Waves: Chinese Themes in the Arts of Korea and Japan I," March 1–September 21, 2003.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Art of the Brush: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy," March 12–August 14, 2005.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Four Seasons," January 28–August 13, 2006.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty," September 28, 2010–January 2, 2011.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Noble Virtues: Nature as Symbol in Chinese Art," September 10, 2022–January 29, 2023.

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Barnhart, Richard M. Along the Border of Heaven: Sung and Yüan Paintings from the C. C. Wang Family Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983, pp. 136–39, fig. 62.

Zong Dian 宗典. Ke Jiusi Shiliao 柯九思史料 (Research material on Ke Jiusi). Revised from 1963 edition. Shanghai: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 1985, pp. 52, 57.

Lu Shihua 陸時化. Wu Yue suojian shuhua lu 吳越所見書畫錄 (Record of calligraphy and painting seen in the Wu and Yue regions). Preface dated 1776, juan 3. Reprinted in Zhongguo shuhua quanshu 中國書畫全書 (Compendium of classical publications on Chinese painting and calligraphy) Edited by Lu Fusheng 盧輔聖. Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1993–2000, vol. 8, pp. 1040–41.

Hearn, Maxwell K., and Wen C. Fong. Along the Riverbank: Chinese Paintings from the C. C. Wang Family Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 101, pls. 5a–b.