signed Zou Yigui, with two seals of the artist, chen zou yi gui, gong hui
Titleslip on box cover and album cover, inscription on title page, and colophon all by Jin Liang (1878-1962), colophon signed Jin Liang, with two seals, jin liang, gua pu jian cang

1. Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, September 2-October 9, 1994; The Chrysler Museum, Virginia, November 13, 1994-January 8, 1995; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, September 9-November 11, 1995; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, December 15, 1995-February 18, 1996; China Institute, New York, February 4-June 10, 1998
2. Le Parfum de l'encre: Peintures Chinoises de la Collection Roy et Marilyn Papp, Musée Cernuschi, September 23-December 30, 1999
3. Lyrical Traditions: Four Centuries of Chinese Paintings from the Papp Collection, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, June 22-October 7, 2007

1. Claudia Brown, "Heritage of the Brush: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting", in Orientations, vol. 22, no. 9, September 1991, fig. 9, p. 80
2. Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1994, cat. 25, pp. 82-87
3. Le Parfum de l'encre: Peintures Chinoises de la Collection Roy et Marilyn Papp, Musée Cernuschi, 1999, cat. 27, pp. 97-102
4. Claudia Brown, "Painting and the Qing Court: Scholar-Artists, 1736-1850", in Judith Smith (Ed.), Tradition and Transformation: Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-tsing Li, University of Kansas, 2005, fig. 2, p. 310
5. Claudia Brown, "Scholar Zhang Peeks at Yingying: Thoughts on Pictorial Aspects of Chinese Cloisonné and the Relationship with Painting", in Béatrice Quette (Ed.), Cloisonné: Chinese enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2011, p. 142, fig. 7.24
6. Claudia Brown, Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911, University of Washington Press, 2014, fig. 2.15, p. 54
7. Claudia Brown, Melissa Button and Mark Pomilio (Eds.), Inverse Conversations: Tradition RE/formed, Phoenix Art Museum, 2015, p. 62

- Paper bears tanned tone due to age. - Foxings can be found throughout the album.
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Jinliang's colophon:
Zou Xiaoshan (Zou Yigui) was good at painting, especially in the subject of flower painting. He was skilled in using colors. His works were favored by the emperor. This album includes a total of sixteen flower paintings. Among them, each season - spring, summer, autumn, and winter – has four pieces. The color and luster [of each painting] are delicate and sleek, and it is hard to trace the brushwork. This album is truly a remarkable work.
- Translation courtesy of Lee Le Lu.