China / 5000 Years

China / 5000 Years

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Yu Ming and Xu Zhonghao, Lady and Calligraphy in Xing Shu, ink and color on paper, hanging scroll installed in frame

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the calligraphy, signed Shixue jushi, at the age of seventy-one, dated 1950, sixth month, summer, with two seals of the calligrapher, Zhong Hao Chang Shou and Gui Yun; two seals of the artist, Yu Ming and Di Fan; and one seal of Robert H. Ellsworth, An Si Yuan cang

Height 38⅜ in., 97.5 cm; Width 15⅜ in., 39 cm

Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth (1929 - 2014), acquired in Shanghai, 1983.

Sotheby's New York, 16th June 1993, lot 53.

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