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Qian Hui'an

Absorb the Past; Abandon the Present

1800s–1900s
Accordion-style album of 10 painted leaves; ink and color on silk

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Leaf four depicts Tao Yuanming, carried by servants in a basket as he had an ailing foot. Tao wrote the Peach Blossom Spring tale, in which a fisherman loses his way and ends up in a utopia.

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