元 鄭元祐 楷書師孺齋記 卷, Record of the Following One's Ancestor Studio, Zheng Yuanyou, dated 1345

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元 鄭元祐 楷書師孺齋記 卷, Record of the Following One's Ancestor Studio, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), dated 1345, China, Handscroll; ink on paper, 10 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. ( x 96 cm), Calligraphy, Zheng Yuanyou (Chinese, 1292–1364), This text, written when scholars living in retirement became intimately identified with their gardens or studios, is a rare fourteenth-century example of a new literary genre, the 'studio memoir.' But as Zheng's brief postscript makes clear, the essay was also intended to function as a letter of introduction for its recipient, an aspiring young student named Xu Huan

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