signed XU XI BI by the artist inscribed MING QIN YAN LI by Huang Yi，a artists of the Qing Dynasty inscribed CHUAN SHI GUI QI by Jin Cheng，president of Chinese Asian Antiquities Xu Xi (died before 975), was a Chinese painter in the Southern Tang kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period，and excelled at bird-and-flower and landscape painting.