Lot 35: Tie Bao (1752-1824) Couplet in Running Script (2)

Tie Bao (1752-1824)
Couplet in Running Script
Ink on wax paper depicting clouds, bats, bamboo leaves, and Daoist ritual instruments, signed Yeting Tiebao with two artist's seals reading Tiebao siyin and bujizhou zhuren. 189cm (74 1/4in) high x 41cm (16 1/8in) wide (2).
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清 鐵保行書八言聯 水墨描金雲蝠紋蠟箋 鏡框

款識：心澈冰壺神凝秋水，堂開綠野室接青雲。冶亭鐵保。

鈐印：鐵保私印、不繋舟主人

The couplets may be translated as:
'The heart is clear as an ice-chest and the spirit cleansed by the waters of Autumn; the hall is open to the green fields and the room to the azure clouds.'

Tie Bao (1752-1824), also known as Yeting (courtesy name) and Mei'an (sobriquet), was a member of the Plain Yellow Banner (正黃旗) and a senior Imperial scholar who served at court for over fifty years. He was a prolific poet and an accomplished calligrapher. Tie Bao, Liu Yong (1719-1805), Weng Fanggang (1733-1818), and Prince Cheng (1752-1823) were recognised as the most important four masters of calligraphy in the mid Qing dynasty. For more information about Tie Bao, see the footnote for Lot 30.

鐵保，字冶亭，號梅庵，正黃旗人，棟鄂氏，據其本人考證為覺羅氏，係北宋越王趙偲後裔。二十歲中進士，為官五十年，嘉慶十年（1805年），擢升兩江總督，賞頭品頂戴，為仕途巔峰，後兩次被貶，先後流放新疆和吉林。雖然仕途多舛，但鐵保詩文書法馳名朝野，久富文名。編有《欽定熙朝雅頌集》134卷、《惟清齋全集》及《惟清齋帖》。書法取法顏真卿，一掃館閣體痼疾，後世將鐵保、翁方綱、劉墉、成親王並稱為清代中期四大書家。