Auction sale reference

Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) Poems in Large Running Script Handscroll, ink on paper 46 x 900 cm. (18 1/8 x 354 3/8 in.)

Sold for HK$83,227,500 at Christie's on May 27, 2019.

Horizontal handscroll covered with lines of black Chinese calligraphy and red seals

Lot description

WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559) Poems in Large Running Script Handscroll, ink on paper 46 x 900 cm. (18 1/8 x 354 3/8 in.) Inscribed and signed, with eleven seals of the artist Dated twenty-third day, third month, guichou year of the Jiajing period (1553)

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