SHI QIYUAN (16TH-17TH CENTURY)
RUNNING CURSIVE SCRIPT CALLIGRAPHY AFTER WANG XIZHI
Hanging scroll, ink on satin
140 x 43.4 cm (55 x 17 in.)
Signed by the artist: Shi Qiyuan
Two seals of the artist: Shi Qi Yuan Yin, Yong Yan Shi
Note:
Shi Qiyuan passed the official examinations in the thirty-second year of the Wanli era (1604). He was an avid calligrapher. For brief biography, see Zhongguo Lidai Renmin Dacidian, Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1999, p.431
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