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LIN HUAN (EARLY 15TH CENTURY), ZENG QI (1372-1432), AND OTHERS
POEMS TO APPRECIATE THE FALLING SNOW IN VARIOUS FORMS OF CALLIGRAPHY
Handscroll, ink on paper
The handscroll consists of calligraphy by twenty-two Yongle Hanlin Academy members
30 x 812 cm. (11 4/5 x 315 1/3 in.)
Preface by Lin Huan (awarded the first rank of the Metropolitan Graduate Degree in 1406, instructor of the Hanlin Academy), others including Zeng Qi (1372-1432, awarded the first rank of the Metropolitan Graduate Degree in 1404), Wang Ying (1376-1450), and other contemporary Hanlin Academy members
Signed, with one or more seals of each artist
Preface dated early spring of wuzi year, the sixth year of the Yongle era (1408)
POEMS TO APPRECIATE THE FALLING SNOW IN VARIOUS FORMS OF CALLIGRAPHY
Handscroll, ink on paper
The handscroll consists of calligraphy by twenty-two Yongle Hanlin Academy members
30 x 812 cm. (11 4/5 x 315 1/3 in.)
Preface by Lin Huan (awarded the first rank of the Metropolitan Graduate Degree in 1406, instructor of the Hanlin Academy), others including Zeng Qi (1372-1432, awarded the first rank of the Metropolitan Graduate Degree in 1404), Wang Ying (1376-1450), and other contemporary Hanlin Academy members
Signed, with one or more seals of each artist
Preface dated early spring of wuzi year, the sixth year of the Yongle era (1408)