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Emperor Hui-tsung's personal name was Chao Chi. He was a graet patron of the arts, an excellent essayist, and a calligrapher of rank. He also excelled at painting landscapes, birds, flowers, and figures. The style of his calligraphy is called "slender gold" and has an uninhibited, tensile strength. A flowering polygonum plant springs up from a sloping bank. Beneath its branches a white goose stands, nuzzling and preening as if ready for a nap. The plant has been rendered with curling leaves in varying positions, and its branches have been arranged into graceful sprays. Lead white has been used to outline the plumage of the smooth egg-shaped stones at the edge of the water. The glowing colors have been chosen to create the effect of an autumn wilderness. Such a scene makes the viewer feel somewhat dazed, as if he were actually standing on the banks of a stream in ancient days. This painting along with A pair of wild Geese By an Autumn Pond attributed to a Sung dynasty artist also in the museum's collection, however, is a copy by a later artist.
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