This album leaf successfully includes refined details on a small scale. The style of painting trees and rocks is reminiscent of works from the orthodox style of the early Qing dynasty (1644-1911), such as by the ‘Four Wangs’.
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 2.15 on p. 220, illus. p. 220 fig. 2.15
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