Wen Ting (1766 - 1852), 'Cold Peaks on Jade Mountain', 1846. Photo courtesy Kaikodo 

Fan painting, ink and colour on gold-sprinkled paper. Dimensions: 18.5 x 53.5 cm. (7 ¼ x 21 in.). Artist’s seal: Wen Ting

Inscription: “Blue-green water from afar, descending a thousand valleys, the jade mountain is high and the two peaks are cold. On a winter day of the year 1846, painted for the refined attention of my elder brother, Master I-men, by Wen Ting, called Hou-shan, at the age of eighty.”

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