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Zhao Mengfu

Bamboo, Rocks and Lonely Orchids

1271–1368
Handscroll; ink on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

One of the many inscriptions records that the handscroll was last remounted by Xu Shudong 徐曙東 of Jiaxing 嘉興 in 1802.

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