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PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY

PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION

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AN IMPERIAL EDICT JIANG TINGXI (1669-1732)
Qianlong period, 1781 Two paintings of Flowers, 1721
Ink and color on silk brocade, mounted on a handscroll, with text Two album leaves, framed and glazed, each ink and color on silk,
reading from left to right in Manchu and from right to left in Chinese, each inscribed, dated xinchou (1721) and signed Xigu Jiang Tingxi
the Chinese text opening with fengtian gaoming (“By Command of with one artist’s seal reading Yangsun.
Heaven”) flanked by two dragons, bearing a date reading Qianlong 10 x 10 1/8in (25.4 x 26.1cm) each
sishier nian (1781) with two large imperial seals. $2,500 - 3,000
12 1/2 x 100in (31.7 x 254cm)
$2,000 - 3,000 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS

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ZHANG YU (1734-1803) ZHU ANGZHI (1764-AFTER 1840)
Hanging Pine by a Cliff, 1783 Orchid and Orchid, Bamboo and Rock
Hanging scroll, ink on paper, inscribed and dated guimao zhong xia Two hanging scrolls, each ink on paper, one dated dinghai zhong qiu
(1783, mid-summer) and signed Xuehong Jushi Zhang Yu with two (1827, mid-autumn) and both signed Angzhi, each with one artist’s
artist’s seals reading Yu yin and hu ren shi and two collectors’ seals seal reading Angzhi.
reading Zhao Zhiqian yin and Heshan Tang shi zhen cang. 24 1/4 x 12 5/8in (61.1 x 32.1cm); 24 3/8 x 12 5/8in (62 x 32.1cm)
60 1/2 x 19 1/4in (153.7 x 48.9cm) $2,500 - 4,000
$2,500 - 3,000
Provenance
Provenance You Wei Du Zhai Collection, Seattle, Washington
You Wei Du Zhai Collection, Seattle, Washington acquired in Shanghai, 1982
Sotheby’s New York, 19 December 1980, lot 156

Published
Research Field of Art, East Asian Department, Institute for Advances
Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, Comprehensive Illustrated
Catalog of Chinese Paintings: Third Series, Vol. 2, American and
Canadian Collections II, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, 2014, A64-042

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WANG FANG (1799-1877) AND REN YU (1853-1901)
Two Landscapes
a) Wang Fang, Winter Landscape, folding fan leaf mounted for
framing, ink and color on paper, titled, dated xuwu chunri (1858,
spring), dedicated to Xizhi and signed Wang Fang with one artist’s seal
reading Wang Fang.
9 x 18 7/8in (22.9 x 48xm)
b) Ren Yu, Bringing Wine in the Setting Sun, folding fan leaf mounted
for framing, ink and color on paper, titled, dated renchen xia (1892,
summer), dedicated to Weizhi and signed Lifan Ren Yu with one
artist’s seal reading Lifan.
9 1/2 x 20in (24.2 x 50.8cm)
$2,000 - 3,000

Provenance
You Wei Du Zhai Collection, Seattle, Washington
acquired in Shanghai, 1982, and in Suzhou, 1985

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