ZHANG FU (1546-circa 1631)

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ZHANG FU (1546-circa 1631)

Playing the "Phoenix Sheng" Flute in the Moonlight

Handscroll, ink and color on paper, 10½ x 38in. (27 x 96.5cm.)

Signed: "Zhang Fu painted for birthday"

Dated mid-spring of xinsi year of the Wanli era (1581)

Two seals of the artist: Zhang Fu Shi yin; Zhang Yuan Chun

Frontispiece by Zhou Tianqiu (1514-1595), with three seals

Nine colophons: including Wang Xijue (1534-1610), Wang Shimao (1536-1588), Cao Changxian (16th century), Wang Shizhen (1526-1590), Wang Han (16th century), Qi Jiguang (1528-1587), Wu Hufan (1894-1968, two colophons), Ye Gongchuo (1881-1968)

Fifteen collectors' seals including six of Wu Hufan

Lable by Xia Jingguang (1875-1953)

Fitted wooden box engraved with a label by Wu Hufan