LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink and colour on silk, handscroll

Size Notes:

total length: 29.3 by 514 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

signed with three seals of the artist reading Zhao, Daya, and Zhao shi Zi'ang; inscribed seventy-five collector's seals; thirteen colophons dating from the Yuan Dynasty through the 20th century

Exhibited:

So Gen Min Shin Meiga Taikan, (Exhibition of Ancient Japanese and Chinese Paintings from the Contemporary and Ancient Periods), Tokyo, 1917, p. 30.

Literature:

Shiqubaoji, xubian, 1799, pp 986-987. Zhuwei daren jiequ shuji zihua wanwu deng caozhang, Qingdai gongting dangan – Xuantong chao (Record of Books and Paintings Borrowed by Several Senior Officers), in the Palace Archives of the Qing Dynasty during the Xuantong years. Song-Yuan-Ming-Qing Da Guan, (Famous Paintings from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties), Tokyo, 1917. Cheng Qi, The Paintings and Calligraphy Collection of Xuan Hui Tang, Hong Kong, 1972. James Cahill, An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: T'ang, Sung, Yüan, Berkeley, 1980.

Provenance:

Yuan Government. Pan Di (Yuan Dynasty). Xing Tong (1551-1612). Wang Yanshi (late Ming Dynasty). Liang Qingbiao (1620-1691). An Qi (1683-1742). Qing Imperial Collection. Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) - Emperor Xuantong (Pu Yi) (r. 1908-1912). Pu Jie (1907-1994). Baron Kihachiro Okura, (1837-1928), Tokyo. Cheng Qi (b. 1911), Tokyo.