收藏著錄@#@石渠寶笈三編(乾清宮),第二冊,頁639-642@#@@#@收藏著錄@#@故宮書畫錄(卷八),第四冊,頁146@#@@#@收藏著錄@#@故宮書畫圖錄,第二十五冊,頁78-83@#@@#@參考書目@#@1.〈清鄒一桂慶天香〉,收入國立故宮博物院編輯委員會編,《牡丹名畫特展圖錄》(臺北:國立故宮博物院,1987年四月初版),頁46。
@#@@#@內容簡介(中文)@#@鄒一桂(西元一六八六-一七七二年),江蘇無錫人。字原褒,號小山,又號讓卿,晚號二知老人。為世宗雍正五年(一七二七)進士,歷官至禮部侍郎,加尚書銜。除善繪外,亦精通畫理,著有小山畫譜。本幅選自「墨妙珠林冊」。畫紫色牡丹一朵,名為:「慶天香」。據對幅乾隆題云,此花為複瓣,且花瓣層層堆起,有如起樓台一般,高約五、六寸。其味春而清,初開為單葉,至五或七年後則成千葉,年遠者樹高甚達八、九尺。
@#@@#@內容簡介(英文)@#@The name of this violet peony is Heavenly Scent. According to the colophon by the Ch’ien-lung Emperor, the many petals of this flower are stacked and layered like a storied building, such that it is built up to a height of five or six inches tall. The actual flower is very fragrant and the stem can grow to a height of nearly three meters. It’s first bloom is unipetalous, but after six or seven years it can have up to hundreds of petals per flower.
Tsou I-kuei was from Wu-hsi in Kiangsu. He received his Advanced Degree in 1727 and served as Vice-minister and Minister in the Ministry of Rites. Good at the theory as well as the practice of painting, he authored the book Hsiao-shan hua-p’u (Tsou I-kuei on Painting), Hsiao-shan being his style name.