Whiskers Through Four Realms: Eighty Cats in Silk & Ink - A Gongbi Painting Collection
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 28 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.23 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Whiskers Through Four Realms gathers eighty original hand-painted gongbi cats, each one wandering through a different corner of the Chinese artistic tradition - the instruments of the scholar's studio, the flowers of the four seasons, the beasts of myth and legend, and the glazes of a thousand years of porcelain. Painted on silk in fine line work and mineral pigments, every plate carries a seal carved with that cat's own name. And every cat, however grand its surroundings, stays unmistakably a cat: curious, unbothered, and entirely at home among things far older than itself.
Each plate is presented full page, with bilingual captions in English and Traditional Chinese, so the album can be read - or simply looked at - one realm at a time.
The four realms- I - Whiskered Melodies - Twenty traditional Chinese instruments meet twenty cats who treat them as cushions, climbing frames and concert partners: pipa, guzheng, erhu, dizi, sheng, yangqin, suona, guqin, and the deep bronze of ancient chime bells.
- II - Pawprints in Blossom - Twenty flowers of the Chinese garden unfold through the four seasons, each one guarded or gently teased by a cat: peony and plum, lotus and chrysanthemum, wisteria and wintersweet.
- III - Mythic Meows - Dunhuang apsaras, creatures of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, guardian beasts and festival deities - reborn with whiskers, halos and gilded clouds.
- IV - Porcelain Whiskers - Ru celadon, Jian hare's-fur, blue-and-white and falangcai: a millennium of Chinese ceramics, each glaze matched with the feline twin it always deserved.
80 full-color plates, one per page - 4 themed collections of 20 - bilingual captions in English and Traditional Chinese - painted on silk in mineral pigments in the classical gongbi manner - 88 pages, printed on premium color paper.
Who it is forFor cat lovers, for collectors of Chinese painting and porcelain, for anyone who has ever paused in front of a museum case of celadon and thought: something is missing here. The silk-textured grounds and mineral palettes make this album at home on an art lover's shelf, on a coffee table, or in the hands of a child who is not yet old enough to know that cats and ancient art are two different things.
No text-heavy essays, no art-historical jargon - just the pictures, their names, and their seals.
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