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HUA YAN (1682-1756)
ZHONG KUI
Hanging scroll, ink and light colours on paper
130 x 63.2 cm (51 1/8 x 24 7/8 in.)
Dated ninth month, guiyou year (1753)
Signed by the artist: Xinluo Shanren
One seal of the artist: Yan Xue Zhi Shi
One collector's seal of Fang Rui'yi (1815-1889)
Inscription below the painting by Fang Rui'yi, dated renshen year (1872)
ZHONG KUI
Hanging scroll, ink and light colours on paper
130 x 63.2 cm (51 1/8 x 24 7/8 in.)
Dated ninth month, guiyou year (1753)
Signed by the artist: Xinluo Shanren
One seal of the artist: Yan Xue Zhi Shi
One collector's seal of Fang Rui'yi (1815-1889)
Inscription below the painting by Fang Rui'yi, dated renshen year (1872)
Literature
Fang Rui'yi, Mengyuan Shuhua lu (Catalogue of Paintings and Calligraphy in the Meng Yuan Collection), juan (chapter)21, in Zhougguo Shuhua Quanshu, Shanghai Shuhau Chubanshe, 1998, vol. 12, p.342