YAO NAI (1731-1815)

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YAO NAI (1731-1815)

Jingong Sutra

Album of ten leaves, ink on paper, each leaf measures 7½ x 8 7/8in. (19 x 22.5cm.)

Last leaf signed: Yao Nai

Dated the eighth month of the fifty-fourth year of the Qianlong era (1789)

Thirty additional inscriptions, including ones by Zhang Wentao (1764-1814), Zhao Zichen (1781-1860), Zheng Xiaoxu (1860-1938) and Chen Sanli (1865-1937)

Eleven collectors' seals

Preface on two leaves by Sun Xingyan (1753-1818), signed with one seal
Eight colophons by scholars of the period, Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802), Tao Chao (1781-1828), Yuan Tingshou (1764-1810?), Qian Tong (1752-?), Song Bochun (1748-?), Yi Bingshou (1754-1815), Wu Ting (18th century) and Zhang Yin (1761-1829)

Label by Chen Hongshou (1768-1822)