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1294. (Wong 23) One Scroll Painting, signed, Chao, Ch'ang. Sung. Chinese. 183 Painted on silk, in ink and colors. Still life; showing various kinds of flowers, fruits, vegetables and shells, with butterflies hovering above them. The first group contains a red cockcomb, white daisies, several nuts and vegetables; the second group inclused feathers and flowers; and the third group shows a brilliant blue morning-glory, shells vegetables, feathers and bamboo leaves; with numerous small insects destroying and dragging away wings of a butterfly and parts of a shell-fish. At the end of the scroll a blue flowering plant is growing close to a rock. Signature and five seals at end; three seals at beginning. Label of mount at upper right, attributes this painting to Chao Ch'ang. Design of imperial gold dragon on brown paper, precedes painting. Length 69¼"; height, 11¾". Purchased from K.T. Wong of Shanghai, at New York, Special Voucher #29 January, 1918, 750.00
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