WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)

Details
WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)

A Paradise on Earth

Handscroll, ink and blue-green color on silk, 10 x 85¼in. (25.5 x 216.5cm.)

Inscribed with a seven-character eight line poem

Signed: Zhengming

Dated the seventh month of wuzi year of the Jiajing era (1528)
Two seals of the artist: Zheng Ming; Heng Shan

Two colophons , one dated 1550, with two seals of Wang Shou (circa 1492-1550), and one dated 1561, with two seals of Peng Nian
Provenance
Sold in these rooms on June 29, 1984, as lot 721
Literature
To-so-Gen-Min Meiga Tai-kan (Conspectus of Famous Paintings of the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties), Exh.Cat.,Tokyo, 1930, p. 297 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Tokyo: Imperial Museum, 1928