1998-116

Description

Scope and content : Manuscript scroll believed to be from Dunhuang.  Removed in 1910 for Beijing.  Ended up in the Fanjiang Ge hall of Li Shengduo (Muzhai ) of Dehua.  After Li Shengduo died, the work was purchased by Zhang Guchu (1890-1968; i.e., Zhang Hong, a Cantonese painter working in an art publishing firm in the 1930s) in 1947 (dinghai) [recorded in his 'Jichuanan suo cang Dunhuang shishi tulu' manuscript copy].  Ye Gongchuo was one of the few people to see this work when it was in Li Shengduo's collection.  After it went to Zhang Guchu, it was viewed by Huang Binhong and Ye.  When Rao Zongyi wrote about this piece, it was still in Zhang Guchu's coll.  In 1960, it became part of the Peng family coll. in Hong Kong, and it entered the John B. Elliott coll. in 1985.