XIE SHICHEN (1487-1567)Scholarly Gathering till TwilightHandscroll, ink and colour on paper29.8 x 127.5 cm. (11 3⁄4 x 50 1⁄4 in.)With two seals of the artistInscribed, signed and dated spring, renzi the thirty-first year of the Jiajing period (1552), with three seals of the artistColophons by Zhou Tianqiu (1514-1595), Wen Peng (1498- 1573), Wen Jia (1501-1583), Wang Xi, Wang Xu, Zu Wu, Zhan Xianzhang, Ye Kun, Xu Chu, with a total of twenty-one seals Frontispiece by Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), with two sealsSix collector’s seals: four of Zhang Keyuan (1862-1930) and two of Sun Zutong (1888-1940)Titleslip by Sun Zutong, with one sealApanied by a wooden box incised with the titleslip details and a seal