QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

There is a four-character inscription on of the sides, reading Changlin shanzhuang, ‘The Changlin Mount Villa’, and another six-character inscription on the lower right of the base reading Wumen Gu dajia zhi, signed Lin Ji, followed by a seal of Ji, with a further five-character seal to the lower left side reading Renjian yu fu xian, ‘An immortal with a jade axe among the living.’ The current lot is accompanied by a hanging scroll with the rubbing of the present ink stone and a colophon signed by contemporary scholar, collector, and calligrapher Dong Yanfang (b.1946).