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A painting in ink and colour on paper depicting a laughing bearded official wearing flowing robes and with a sword hanging from a belt tied around his waist, his arms raised out before him with a gourd in his right hand and a bat in flight above his head -- 53½in.x 26in., painted on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival by Moh-Ji in Canton Province in the hope of passing the civil-service entrance exams, framed and glazed.