方士庶 端午吉景｜Fang Shishu, Snakes and Toad

方士庶　端午吉景

設色紙本　立軸

釋文：蛇也屈曲，蟾也彳亍。互視眈眈，依草附木。究何技能，相機肆毒。蝴蝶翩翾，庶遠恥辱。薰風浩蕩，無思不服。祓除不祥，受天百祿。乾隆己巳(1749)，端五小師老人并題。鈐印：「環山」、「士庶」

鑑藏印：「雅峰珍藏」、一印漫漶不辨

Fang Shishu 1693-1751

Snakes and Toad

ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll

signed Xiaoshi Laoren, dated jisi (1749) and with two seals of the artist

with two collects ors’ seals, one illegible 

83.5 × 49.1 cm. 32 ⅞ × 19 ¼ in.