
Asaph Hyman
Global Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
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Illustrated: Sydney L.Moss Ltd., Documentary Chinese Works of Art in Scholar's Taste, London, 1983, Catalogue no.122.
The inscription on the reverse may be translated as: For the Imperial Appreciation of the Qianlong Emperor. Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), 'Thousand-character essay in two calligraphic styles', indicating the name of the scroll to which the clasp would originally have belonged.