Details
WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559)
Small Standard Script Calligraphy (xiaokai shu)
Album of thirteen leaves, ink on paper, eleven leaves measure 6¾ x 5¼in. (17 x 13cm.), two leaves measure 5 3/8 x 5¼in. (13.5 x 13cm.)
The text consists of twenty-one ancient poems
Signed: "Zhengming at the age of eighty-eight"
Dated the sixth month of dingsi year, the thirty-sixth year of the Jiajing era (1557)
Twenty impressions of the artist's seal: Zheng Ming
Seventy-two collectors' seals, including forty-three of Xiang Yuanbian (1525-1590), three of Wen Ding (1766-1852) and five of Shao Songnian (1848-1923)
Eight colophons, one by Xiang Yuanbian, two by Zi Xuan (1557-after 1617) and five by Shao Songnian
Small Standard Script Calligraphy (xiaokai shu)
Album of thirteen leaves, ink on paper, eleven leaves measure 6¾ x 5¼in. (17 x 13cm.), two leaves measure 5 3/8 x 5¼in. (13.5 x 13cm.)
The text consists of twenty-one ancient poems
Signed: "Zhengming at the age of eighty-eight"
Dated the sixth month of dingsi year, the thirty-sixth year of the Jiajing era (1557)
Twenty impressions of the artist's seal: Zheng Ming
Seventy-two collectors' seals, including forty-three of Xiang Yuanbian (1525-1590), three of Wen Ding (1766-1852) and five of Shao Songnian (1848-1923)
Eight colophons, one by Xiang Yuanbian, two by Zi Xuan (1557-after 1617) and five by Shao Songnian
Literature
Shao Songnian, Guyuan Cuilu ("The Assembly of Ancient Relationships"), preface dated 1904, vol. 3, pp. 24-25