SHAO BAO (1460-1527)

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SHAO BAO (1460-1527)

Running Script Calligraphy (xing shu)

Handscroll, ink on gold-flecked paper, 11½ x 199¼in. (29 x 506cm.)

The text consists of eight poems by the artist

Signed: "Written by Erquan Shanren Bao at the Sea and Sky Pavilion in Huishan School"

Three seals of the artist: Er Quan, Guo Xian, Shang Shu zhi yin

Twenty-one collectors' seals, including three of Pan Zhengwei (1791-11850), five of Pan Yanling, two of Pan Shicheng (both 19th century) and two of Ye Gongzuo (1881-1968)

Ten colophones, including one each by Chen Zizhuang (1596-1647), He Wuzuo (circa 1619-1646), Zhang Xia, dated bingyin year of the Kangxi era (1686), Wu Rongguang (1773-1843), Zhang Weiping (1780-1859) and Pan Zhengwei

Label by Wang Shu (1668-1743) and Deng Erxi (1883-1954)

Frontispeice by Ruchong
Literature
Pan Zhengwei, Tingfanlou Shuhuaji (Record of the Painting and Calligraphy in the Author's Collection), vol. 2