The subject here is Lady Pan Chieh-yu, once the favored consort of Emperor Ch'eng (r. 33-8BC) but supplanted by the affections of another. In lament, she compared her fall from favor to the neglect of a fan put away into storage with the arrival of autumn. She stands by coir palm trees holding a fan. The hollyhock in front signals the end of summer. The "boneless" ink wash flower painting and white makeup of the lady are similar to those of Tu Chin's Enjoying Antiquities, from which T'ang's style here derived. Furthermore, the style of Wen Cheng-ming's inscription in the upper right belongs to the period after the age of 39. Since Wen and T'ang were born in the same year, this painting was probably done sometime after 1509.