A PAINTED EIGHT-PANEL SCREEN
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION 
A PAINTED EIGHT-PANEL SCREEN

YANG JIN (1644-1728) AND ZHANG ZHONG RUO (18TH CENTURY), DATED TO THE DINGWEI YEAR OF YONGZHENG, CORRESPONDING TO 1727, AND OF THE PERIOD

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A PAINTED EIGHT-PANEL SCREEN
YANG JIN (1644-1728) AND ZHANG ZHONG RUO (18TH CENTURY), DATED TO THE DINGWEI YEAR OF YONGZHENG, CORRESPONDING TO 1727, AND OF THE PERIOD
Originally conceived as eight hanging scrolls and now mounted as a screen, finely painted in ink and color on silk, depicting various flowers including peonies, lingzhi and orchids, with a poem extolling the virtues of peonies and an inscription in the upper left dedicated to Lu Chang Shi who commissioned the paintings for his mother's sixtieth birthday, dated to the dingwei year of the Yongzheng era, signed Xi Ting bashisi laoren Yang Jin (Yang Jin, the eighty-four year-old man from the Western Pavilion), with three seals of the artist, Yang Jin Shi Yin, Zhi He Fu Yin, Xi Ting
52 in. (132 cm.) high x 115 in. (292 cm.) long

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