2: Hua Yan and Some Zippy Skippys

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Hua Yan
Flying Squirrels (date unknown, likely 1730 - 1756)
Handscroll, ink and color on silk (unverified), w57 cm x h145.5 cm (22.44" x 57.28")
Unknown location
From ArtHistoryArchive.com

REFRESHER:
https://everydayartcritique.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-west-wind.html

Today, an eighteenth century animal painting from one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.
This one may be stretching an 'autumn' theme, but I'm operating under the idea that end of the day,  regardless of flight, squirrels be squirrels. And the judge allows it, because this is just a great piece anyway.