In the manner of Yun Shouping (1633-1690)Flowers and RockInk and pigment on silk, inscribed and signed, with three apocryphal seals of the artist, Nantian caoyi, Zheng shu, Ji yueyun, and collectors seals, framed and glazed. 162.5cm long x 68.8cm (64in x 27in) wide. (2).注脚金粟仙糧圖 設色紙本 鏡框裝裱Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent來源：英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今Yun Shouping (惲壽平), also known as Nantian (南田) (1633–1690), was a major artist of the early Qing dynasty. He was regarded as one of the 'Six Masters' of the Qing period, together with the Four Wangs and Wu Li. He boldly used strong colours, such as reds and purples, which had traditionally been shunned by Chinese painters as they were seen as gaudy and offensive. He revived the genre of flower paintings in China and became popular throughout the country. The painting is titled:乾隆御賜惲壽平金粟仙糧圖立軸 遂寧張氏謹署Which may be translated as:His Imperial Majesty Qianlong confers the hanging scroll 'Osmanthus and Celestial Grain' by Yun Shouping to Mr Zhang of Suining'With apocryphal seal of the Qianlong emperor: Qianlong jianshang 乾隆鑑賞 'Authenticated by Qianlong' The inscription on the painting reads: 藕香館戲圖，不為黃筌之刻劃，徐熙之縱放，專師趙家，復兼六如、十洲，以逸秀閒澹為宗，不入時人畦徑。白雲外史壽平。Which may be translated as: 'The painting 'Enjoyment in Fragrant Lotus Root Pavillion' is not as sharply cut as [the paintings of] Huang Quan, nor as untrammeled as Xu Xi; following the model of master Zhao, on par with Liu Ru [Tang Yin] and Shi Zhou [Qiu Ying], taking leisure and ease as a model, it does not follow the fashionable and trodden path. Signed: Unofficial historian, White Cloud Shouping.' Seal on the top right: Ji Yueyun 寄岳雲Seals on the bottom left: Nantian Caoyi 南田草衣, Zhengshu 正叔The slip attached to the bottom left is dated to the seventh year of the Jiaqing reign (1802) with the seals of the collector and scholar Bi Long 畢瀧 (active during the Qianlong/Jiaqing reigns)