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This
painting depicts a branch of a peach tree bearing two peaches. A squirrel
makes his way along the branch. The painting is not signed, but there are
two artist's seals, Shun Chu and Han Mo Yu Hsi. The colophon paper bears
an inscription by Ou Ta-jen.
Ch'ien
HsUan (tzu Shun-chu, hao Sun-feng, Ch'ing-chu lao-jen, Hsi-lan-weng) was
from Wu-hsing in Chekiang. He was liberal in temperament and noble in
spirit. After the fall of the Sung he went into retirement and would not
serve the alien Mongol government. Because of his talents in poetry,
painting, and calligraphy, Ch'ien Hsuan was the leader of the "Eight
Eminents of Wu-hsing." In landscape, bird-and-flower and figure
paintings, he took the ancients as his models.
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