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Keywords: Zhangqi - Potted Calamus and Pleasure Rock - Walters 35209.jpg Some rocks are strange and eccentric formed by nature's cuts some grasses are young and tender green from winter to summer begins Zhangqi's Chang Ch'i's long poem The large rock and the planter must be imagined sitting before a clear window on an uncluttered desk The rest of the poem is devoted to the praise of the divine sprouts of the calamus growing in the planter Its leaves are hung over doorways at the time of the annual dragonboat festival and its dried rootlets have numerous medicinal uses The seals Zhangqi Chang Ch'i impressed upon his painting suggest something of his character They read Having no worldly desires and Mountain master of vegetable roots 1738 ink color paper W 14 13/16 x L 31 15/16 in 37 7 x 81 1 cm accession number 35 209 16284 Kaikodo New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1996 by purchase Museum purchase 1996 Zhang Xiaocun Wanshi penchang tu Chang Hsiao-ts'un Wan-shih p'en-ch'ang T'u Picture of Calamus in Basin and Rock for Enjoyment by Zhang Xiaocun Chang Hsiao-ts'un Zhangqi Chang Ch'i ; Zhang Xiaocun penshi tu Chang Hsiao-ts'un P'en-shih T'u Picture of Basin by Zhang Xiaocun Chang Hsiao-ts'un Zhangqi Chang Ch'i ; Caiken shanzhang Ts'ai-ken shan-chang Mountain Master of Vegetable Roots ; Liyuan Zhongye she shoucang yinji Li-yüan chung-yeh shih shou-ts'ang yin-chi Collecting seal of Liyuan Zhengye Li-yüan chung-yieh ; Signature Xiaocun Hsiao Ts'un; Signature Zhangqi Tanbai Chang Ch'i Tan-pai or Tanbo Tan-po - Having no worldly desires place of origin China Walters Art Museum license 2D Chinese paintings in the Walters Art Museum Zhangqi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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