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Calligraphy of 30 Poems for Visit by Tan Kanghou under Willows along Pearl River by Li Xialing in th
Year 20 of Qing Emperor Jiajing's reign (1815).
Overall Vertical length: 34.5cm, horizontal length: 17.2cm, thickness: 3.0cm, with varying page depths.
Paper, one album, 26 pages. Inscription: “The summer rain just makes me sleepy. Tan Ziping suddenly came and gave me a gift. I then wrote 30 poems under the lamp. It was the 19th of Month 6. I drank and talked with fellows Shiyuan and Shuxi. Manuscript”. Seal: “Xialing”, “Jushui”, “Rong'an Book House” Collected seals: “Small Rong'an Hall”, etc. Li Xiangen's inscription on the first page: “seven pages of handwriting of Shaoyuan Old Man, and a postscript of 13 pages. Qiubo Hall”, affixed with the seal of “Qiubo Hall”. This album is attached with 11 prefaces and postscripts handwritten by Hu Hanmin, Ye Gongzhuo, Zheng Hongnian, Yi Dachang, Mao Guangsheng, Tan Yankai, Chen Rong, Huang Foyi, etc. This piece was formerly collected by Li Xiangen, and donated to us by his eldest son-in-law in 2007..
Li Xialing (1768-1823), also known as Fangjian, Jushui or Xianghai, was from Zili, Shiqi, Xiangshan (today's Zhongshan), Guangdong. He was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, and a large number of writings..
