Artist: Unknown

Date: Ming (1368-1644)

Dimensions: Height 30.8 cm, Width 93.5 cm

Material: Ink and colour on silk

• Object Type：
  • PAINTINGS
• Location：
  • The Painting and Calligraphy of Shanghai Gallery
• Tag：
  • hall of loyalty and filial piety handscroll ming ink and colour silk

This painting depicts the Tao family's Zhongxiao Tang (Hall of Loyalty and Filial Piety) in Jiahe (present-day Jiaxing, Zhejiang province). Tao Juyin, the fifth-generation of the Tao family, built the hall during the Song-Yuan transition. Since then, the Tao family cultivated many descendants into intellectuals. During the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty, the fifteenth-generation descendant Tao Kai commissioned this artwork, which portrays Tao Juyin seated solemnly in the main hall. The painting includes the inscription by Zhu Yingxiang of Songjiang, poetic inscriptions by Ma Yu of Jiading, Xu Man of Songhu, and Zhang Li of Yunjian. This scroll was later rediscovered in modern times by Tao Changshan, Juyin's twenty-fifth-generation descendant in Shanghai. Tao Changshan invited his relative-by-marriage Huang Yixi to add an inscription.

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