Ink painting.  Withered trees and strange rock are featured in this painting of clumps of fine bamboo.  An oblong relief seal reading, Sung-hsueh-chai, is imprinted in the lower left corner, and has caused some to take this to be a work by Chao Meng-fu.  However, the brushwork here is gentle and moist, differing somewhat from the manner of Chao.  This is nevertheless an outstanding work by a Yuan master whose name is now lost to us.  The way in which the ink bamboo sprout branches, and the brushwielding in the brambles and on the slope and rock, recall the brush-manner of Chang Yen-fu, as seen in his "Bamboo and Rock" now in the Nelson Gallery - Atkins Museum collection in Kansas City, Missouri.