Wang Duo 1592-1652

signed Wang Duo, and with two seals of the artist, wang duo zhi yin, yan tan yu sou, and four collectors' seals, jiang xia su shi cang ben, wu chang su shi xin wu yu shang, xiang qing liu shi jin sheng jian cang jin shi shu hua, sheng zu zhen cang

Previously in the collection of Min Chiu member Harold Wong

In Pursuit of Antiquities : 35th Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chin Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, December 22, 1995 to February 18, 1996
San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, regular exhibitions, 1996 and 2006

In Pursuit of Antiquities: Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition of the Min Chiu Society, The Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 34 

-Overall in good condition except satin bears a tanning tone due to age -Several minor restorations can be spotted under close examination
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Artist's inscription:
In the new pavilion, at the outset of late spring of the dinghai year (1647). Outside of my salary, no money to buy books. One might say that living in seclusion, one indulges in [reading] the Daoist canon, Could it be a recluse visiting my hut? We meet amidst the ringing of bells, in the glow of the pagoda, With stream-like intent and mountain-like hearts, our dreams as one. If this is "forgetting one's words," like the fish and the birds, Then the old immortal and the southern marchmont are also empty.  
Upon the completion of the Pavilion of the Rapids by the Silver Harbor on the Bin River, I composed four poems. I first inscribed this one for presentation, when I chanced to look around I realized that the scenery was not inferior to [that of my hometown] Loshui.
This text is recorded in Wang Duo's collected works, and was one of a series of four poems written to commemorate the completion of a new viewing pavilion at Silver Harbor on the Bin River.