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Handscroll painting ink and colours on silk in nine scenes (originally eleven) illustrating the Nushi zhen (Admonitions of the Instructress of the Ladies in the Palace), a text composed by Zhang Hua (c AD 232-300). It bears many seals and long colophons in the hands of the Huizong and Qianlong emperors. At the beginning is a fragment of Song dynasty kesi tapestry-woven silk depicting peonies from an old mounting of the handscroll. At the end of the handscroll was a landscape painting depicting trees by Zou Yigui (now mounted separately [see 1903.4-8.01b]). At the beginning of the handscroll is a large three-character inscription. Painting also has a mark and many seals, including seal of Qianlong; also colophons and poetical exhortations (by Zhang Hua) and an exterior label possibly written by Qianlong.
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