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  1. The Jade Hall Peony
  2. Hsu Hsi
  3. Southern T'ang Kingdom,
  4. Five Dynasties Period
  5. (A.D. 907-959)
  6. Hanging scroll. ink and 
  7. colors on silk.
  8. Width            38.3cm
  9.      The Five Dynasties 
  10. artists Hsu Hsi and Huang 
  11. Ch'uan were both renowned  
  12. as flower and bird painters, 
  13. with Huang Ch'uan's style 
  14. being considered more 
  15. sumptuous, and Hsu Hsi's 
  16. more natural.  In this 
  17. painting, however, Hsu Hsi 
  18. shows himself no less a 
  19. master of the sumptuous 
  20. style.