Details
ZHENG XIE (1693-1765)
Running Script Calligraphy (xing shu)
Handscroll, ink on paper, 21 x 319.2cm. (8 1/8 x 125 5/8in.)
The text consists of ten dao-qing (verses of songs) written by the artist
Inscribed at the end of the scroll: "In yisi year, the third year of Yongzheng era (1725), I failed the Capital Examination and returned home with depression. I wrote these ten dao-qing to express my melancholy. It has been twelve long years since then, and I have finally passed the examination. But somehow, there is still the same discontent deep inside my mind."
Signed: Banqiao Jushi Zheng Xie
Dated: The second year of qianlong era (1737)
Dedicated to Xifeng
Two seals of the artist: Zheng Xie Yin, Ke Rou
Nine collectors' seals
Two colophons, including one by He Shaoji (1799-1873)
Running Script Calligraphy (xing shu)
Handscroll, ink on paper, 21 x 319.2cm. (8 1/8 x 125 5/8in.)
The text consists of ten dao-qing (verses of songs) written by the artist
Inscribed at the end of the scroll: "In yisi year, the third year of Yongzheng era (1725), I failed the Capital Examination and returned home with depression. I wrote these ten dao-qing to express my melancholy. It has been twelve long years since then, and I have finally passed the examination. But somehow, there is still the same discontent deep inside my mind."
Signed: Banqiao Jushi Zheng Xie
Dated: The second year of qianlong era (1737)
Dedicated to Xifeng
Two seals of the artist: Zheng Xie Yin, Ke Rou
Nine collectors' seals
Two colophons, including one by He Shaoji (1799-1873)