Ju Ran, Landscape, Hanging Scroll, ink on silk, inheriting the techniques of the Southern School of landscape painting, using hemp-fiber texturing to shape mountain texture, the painting featuring layered mountain ranges, pine trees, thatched cottages, streams and recluse scholars, with a remote and ethereal composition, numerous colophons and collector seals by celebrated masters of successive dynasties preserved on the painting, mounted in traditional hanging scroll format, painting core length 142cm, width 70cm, attributed to Ju Ran, the great landscape master of the late Five Dynasties and early Song Dynasty, depicting the reclusive mood of Jiangnan mountains and forests, with strong literati charm and well-documented provenance, a precious surviving ancient painting and calligraphy work.