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DAI HONGCI (1853-1910)
Eight-character Calligraphic Couplet in Running Script
A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on coloured patterned paper
Each scroll measures 163 x 40 cm. (64 1⁄8 x 15 3⁄4 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dedicated to Yuchi
One collector's seal
Titleslip inscribed and signed, with two seals of the collector
Dated winter, bingxu year (2006)
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Dai Hongci, was born in Nanhai, Guangdong. He was selected as an imperial academy student and passed the civil service examination in 1876. He was one of the five ministers that went abroad in the late Qing Dynasty to inspect how western governments functioned.

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