Attributed to Zhao Boju

signed Boju, with one seal of the artist, qian li. Spurious colophons by Yu Ji (1272-1348), signed Shuren Yu Ji, with one seal, yu ji; and Wu Kuan (1435-1504), signed Wu Kuan, dated gengzi (1480) of the Chenghua reign, the tenth lunar month, with one seal, yuan fu. Colophons by Dong Qichang (1555-1636), signed Dong Qichang, with two seals, tai shi shi, dong qi chang yin; and Chen Jiru (1558-1639), signed Meigong Chen Jiru, with two seals mei gong, yi fu ru. With six other collectors' seals, nei fu shu yin, yang shi jia cang (3), wang qing xia tang, yao gong shou yin, zhong bin (2), da xue shi yin (3), and other four (illegible)

Ming Huang's Journey to Shu by Tang Anonymous, Hironobu Kohara, Nara: Nara University Press, reprinted 1995, p. 168, fig. 6

-silk has darkened due to age -minor creases, signs of restoration for silk loss and very few worm holes -patches of very fine foxing spots
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