Zhu Gui (wood carver)

Zhu Gui

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Born| 1644

Suzhou, Jiangsu

Died| 1717
Nationality| Chinese
Citizenship| China
Occupation| Wood carver

Zhu Gui (朱圭, ca.1644-1717) was a Wood carving from Qing dynasty, born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Zhu is famous for some important works; for example: the Wu Shuang Pu, this is a book with fourty peerless heroes (1694), than there are the 46 paintings of "Tilling and Weaving" (1696), by order of Emperor Kangxi Emperor.[1][2] and the 146 pictures in the "Book of longevity" (1717).

## Work[edit]

* Portrets of 24 officials in the Lingyan Pavilion is a book with pictures made in 1668.[3]
* Wu Shuang Pu is a book from 1694 with pictures and poems of 40 peerless Chinese heroes from Han dynasty to the Song dynasty. These pictures are still used on porcelain.
* In the period from 1696 till 1713 Zhu Gui works for the Emperor. Like other Emperors, Emperor Kangxi ordered to make multiple pictures of "Tilling and Weaving", 23 of tilling and 23 of weaving. Zhu Gui did the engraving together with Mei Yufeng (梅裕鳳), Jiao Bingzhen (焦秉貞) did the painting. These pictures are still used on porcelain.
* In 1712 Zhu Gui worked together with Mei Yufeng making 36 pictures of the summer palace.
* "Book with pictures of longevity" is a serie of 146 running pictures with a total length of about 50 meters, this book is made in 1717 and Zhu Gui did the engraving.[4] This book is part of the Siku Quanshu.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Roslyn Lee Hammers (2021). The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China. ISBN 978-0367335687.
2. ↑ Peter Golas (2015). Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century. Hong Kong University Press. p. 157, 160. ISBN 9789888208159.
3. ↑ Burkus-Chasson, Anne (2010). Through a Forest of Chancellors, Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou. Harvard-Yenching Institute USA. ISBN 9780674032804.
4. ↑ "Translation: Pictures of the ceremony of longevity" (in 中文).

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