An inscribed twelve-panel lacquer 'Spring Morning in the Han Palace' coromandel lacquer screen, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, dated dingmao year, corresponding to 1687 | 清康熙 丁卯年（1687年） 髹漆加彩漢宮春曉圖十二扇屏風

An inscribed twelve-panel lacquer 'Spring Morning in the Han Palace' coromandel lacquer screen

Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, dated dingmao year, corresponding to 1687

清康熙 丁卯年（1687年） 髹漆加彩漢宮春曉圖十二扇屏風

the reverse inscribed with the famous Chinese classical literature Bao Ren An shu [Letter in reply to Ren An] by Sima Qian (c. 145-c. 86 BC), followed by an inscription translating to 'calligraphy respectively written by Wang Jun to celebrate Minister Shen Wanli's eightieth birthday', dated to the summer of the dingmao year

背書司馬遷《報任安書》

題識：

時在歲次仲夏 以此敬賀 沈萬里 尚書 大人 杖朝之喜

丁卯 夏日

子秀弟王鈞書

Height 101½ in., 257.8 cm; Width of each panel 19¼ in., 49 cm