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outside label and inside card

I should have read this first! It confirms the artist's name as Ling Wenquan and gives some biographic detail on him, including the fact that he won first place in a 1989 military calligraphy competition and has had his works shown domestically and abroad and published in a couple of books.

Given this title slip and printed biography, the calligraphy is a printed reproduction rather than an original work of Ling's.

Thank you for your help rat.
The work is in actuality a work created with
a brush on silk. The flow of the ink tells its
own story upon close examination. In searching
through the web for Ling Wenquan I found that
one of his first inspirations came from a work
by Ouyang Xun. I could not find any other examples
of Ling's work though. Once again thank you.
I can post detailed images of the brushwork if you want.

Sure, would love to see closeups, thanks for offering!

Just Google his name 凌文铨 for a few more examples, though it's not obvious which are genuine.

rat, This first group of images come from an
Epson 750 Pro scanner. I decided that I should
check for the presence of sizing. If this really
was done by an artist wanting to create a fine
line work, then the silk would have to be sized.
When held to bright light the surface of the silk
shimmers. The speed of the movement of a brush
influences the amount of pigment deposited. This
effect is present. I had not really examined
this effect on silk before, but what caught
my eye was that more pigment stayed on the
raised surface of the threads of silk. The
second group of pictures were captured using a
Celestron digital microscope. These show the
gradationof pigment deposits. The bright areas
are the sizing.

Fantastic, thank you for these photos! I'm not sure how to interpret the level of detail shown in the photo from your digital microscope, but I agree from your photos and excellent observations here that the scroll is original. Ling is quite skilled!

images from the microscope

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