Lot Essay
Sold in these rooms on June 3, 1987, lot 70
Details
ZHANG RUITU (1576-1641)
Running Cursive Script Calligraphy (xingcao shu)
Handscroll, ink on satin, 11¾ x 470½in. (29.8 x 1195.1cm.)
The text is the Shiping ("Commentary on Poetry") by Tao Aosun (12th century)
Inscribed with a comment that Mr. Biyu sent the scroll from a distant place and requested that the artist inscribe it
Signed: Zhang Chonggong Ruitu
Dated guihai year of the Tianqi era (1623)
Four seals of the artist: Zhang Chong Gong, Rui Tu, Xing Han Lao Bi Yao Wu Yue, Wen Xie Shi Chong Zhi Chen
Running Cursive Script Calligraphy (xingcao shu)
Handscroll, ink on satin, 11¾ x 470½in. (29.8 x 1195.1cm.)
The text is the Shiping ("Commentary on Poetry") by Tao Aosun (12th century)
Inscribed with a comment that Mr. Biyu sent the scroll from a distant place and requested that the artist inscribe it
Signed: Zhang Chonggong Ruitu
Dated guihai year of the Tianqi era (1623)
Four seals of the artist: Zhang Chong Gong, Rui Tu, Xing Han Lao Bi Yao Wu Yue, Wen Xie Shi Chong Zhi Chen