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Lot Essay
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1. Zhao Liewen was a native of Yanghu, Jiangsu. His sobriquet names include Huiu, Weipu, Nengjing, and Feixi Jushi. His studio is known as Tianfang lou.
2. Lu Zengyu, also known as Qiren, sobriquet name Qiucheng, was from Huiqi, Zhejiang. He passed the jinshi examination in the sixtieth year of the Kangxi era (1721), and was Shuji shi in the Imperial Academy (Hanlin yuan). His published works include Qiukui Wenchao and Sanzhou Shichao.
3. Fan Conglu, from Yinxian, Zhejiang, was also know as Xisheng and Xiping. In the eleventh year of the Yongzheng era (1733, Fan passed the jinshi examination. He was later appointed as Prefect of Shanghe in Shangdong.
4.This handscroll comprises a letter from Wang Shouren (Yangming) to his brothers. It is a missive of brotherly advice, on how one should first distinguish between good and evil and then chooses the right path. Friendships then follow, and from which assistance and support will come. When a person's path is established and leads in the right direction, then one can hope to achieve what the sages has taught us. The scroll had remained in the Wang family's possession until the Qianlong era, as evident from the colophon by Wang Yubin, the eighth generation grandson of Wang Shouren
NOTES:
1. Zhao Liewen was a native of Yanghu, Jiangsu. His sobriquet names include Huiu, Weipu, Nengjing, and Feixi Jushi. His studio is known as Tianfang lou.
2. Lu Zengyu, also known as Qiren, sobriquet name Qiucheng, was from Huiqi, Zhejiang. He passed the jinshi examination in the sixtieth year of the Kangxi era (1721), and was Shuji shi in the Imperial Academy (Hanlin yuan). His published works include Qiukui Wenchao and Sanzhou Shichao.
3. Fan Conglu, from Yinxian, Zhejiang, was also know as Xisheng and Xiping. In the eleventh year of the Yongzheng era (1733, Fan passed the jinshi examination. He was later appointed as Prefect of Shanghe in Shangdong.
4.This handscroll comprises a letter from Wang Shouren (Yangming) to his brothers. It is a missive of brotherly advice, on how one should first distinguish between good and evil and then chooses the right path. Friendships then follow, and from which assistance and support will come. When a person's path is established and leads in the right direction, then one can hope to achieve what the sages has taught us. The scroll had remained in the Wang family's possession until the Qianlong era, as evident from the colophon by Wang Yubin, the eighth generation grandson of Wang Shouren