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MAO LIN (ACTIVE EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
Celestial Palace
Details
MAO LIN (ACTIVE EARLY 18TH CENTURY) Celestial Palace
Eight-panel screen, ink and color on silk
86 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (219.7 x 59.1 cm.)
Signed, with two illegible seals
Dated mid-spring, renxu year (1742)
Mao Lin, whose sobriquet was Tianshi, was a native of Gui’an county (present-day Huzhou in Zhejiang province). He was an accomplished painter of landscapes and figures, but few of his works have survived.