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Anonymous, Qing Dynasty Anonymous
Observing the Waterfall The Nine Elders of Xiangshan
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, with two inscriptions and five seals. Handscroll, ink and color on silk, with an inscription reading Liu Songnian,
65 1/16 x 33 5/8in (165.3 x 85.4cm) followed by an artist’s seal, with a total of twelve collectors’ seals on the
$8,000 - 12,000 painting.
10 7/8 x 107 7/8in (27.7 x 274cm)
清 無名氏 觀瀑圖 設色絹本 立軸 $7,000 - 9,000

Provenance: 無名氏 九老圖 設色絹本 手卷
Formerly in a Connecticut private collection
Although bearing signature and seals of the Southern Song dynasty court
artist Liu Songnian, the composition is based on a work by Ma Xingzu
(active ca. 1131-1162), the son of Ma Fen (12th c.) who painted for the
court a generation prior to Liu Songnian’s arrival. The original Ma Xingzu
scroll is in the collection of the Freer Sackler Museum (F1982.35), and
depicts a gathering of nine elders at the Luoyang garden estate of the
Tang poet Bo Juyi (772-846) in the year 845. It has been assumed that the
colorful character wearing flowers in his hat is the poet. A third handscroll
with a nearly identical composition is in the collection of the National
Palace Museum, Taipei, also bears a signature of Liu Songnian, but is
dated to the Ming dynasty.

Collection of Dr. Philip Gould

8143
After Qiu Ying (1493-1560)
Blue/Green Landscape
Handscroll, ink and mineral pigments on silk, bearing a four character
inscription Shifu Qiu Ying followed by a double gourd form artist’s seal.
13 x 93in (33 x 236cm)
$5,000 - 7,000

仿仇英 青綠山水 設色絹本 手卷

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