With calligraphy and seal in red. A scholar in a landscape setting. It illustrates the story of Wang Xizhi writing calligraphy to help out a poor fan vendor (her business boomed thereafter!). Measurement motif 31x63 cm. Measurement hanging 44x143 cm.
Damages, wear, stains.
Purchased in China by a Swedish Collector in the early 1960s, thence by descent. The Collector worked for the Etnografic Museum in Stockholm and had a great interest in Chinese Works of Art.