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WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559) AND HUANG ZHENG (18TH CENTURY)
ELEGANTLY GATHERING IN THE WEST GARDEN: COMMENTARY AND LANDSCAPE
Handscroll in two sections
a. Running-Cursive Script Calligraphy by Wen Zhengming
Ink on paper, 29.2 x 160 cm. (11 1/2 x 63 in.)
Signed: written by Yanmen Wen Zhengming
Three seals of the artist: Yu Lan Tang, Wen Zheng Ming Yin, Zhen Shan
The text is a description of the painting "Elegantly Gathering in the West Garden" by Li Gongling (1049-1106), originally composed by Mi Fu (1051-1107)
b. Landscape and Figures in Baimiao Style by Huang Zheng
Ink on paper, 29.2 x 193 cm. (11 1/2 x 76 in.)
Inscription at end of the painting by Lu Shihua (1714-1779) states that Huang Zheng presented him with the painting on his fiftieth birthday (1773)
Inscription dated the twenty-fourth day and the fourth month of guisi year (1773)
Seven colophons, including two by Lu Shihua and other 18th century contemporaries
Two collectors' seals
ELEGANTLY GATHERING IN THE WEST GARDEN: COMMENTARY AND LANDSCAPE
Handscroll in two sections
a. Running-Cursive Script Calligraphy by Wen Zhengming
Ink on paper, 29.2 x 160 cm. (11 1/2 x 63 in.)
Signed: written by Yanmen Wen Zhengming
Three seals of the artist: Yu Lan Tang, Wen Zheng Ming Yin, Zhen Shan
The text is a description of the painting "Elegantly Gathering in the West Garden" by Li Gongling (1049-1106), originally composed by Mi Fu (1051-1107)
b. Landscape and Figures in Baimiao Style by Huang Zheng
Ink on paper, 29.2 x 193 cm. (11 1/2 x 76 in.)
Inscription at end of the painting by Lu Shihua (1714-1779) states that Huang Zheng presented him with the painting on his fiftieth birthday (1773)
Inscription dated the twenty-fourth day and the fourth month of guisi year (1773)
Seven colophons, including two by Lu Shihua and other 18th century contemporaries
Two collectors' seals