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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF FRANK G. JAMES (1886 - 1977) PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A PACIFIC
AND GEORGIA G. JAMES (1889 - 1981), PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA NORTHWEST COLLECTOR

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ANONYMOUS (20TH CENTURY) SHEN BIJUN (20TH CENTURY ARTIST)
Landscape after Li Zhaodao Flowers, Birds and Rock
Horizontal scroll, ink and color on silk, inscribed and bearing a Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, titled shi fen chun se, signed
signature reading Yuan Jiang with two seals and one spurious imperial Shen Bijun with one artist’s seal reading Shen Bijun.
collector’s seal, preceded by a four-character title and bearing a 45 1/4 x 24 1/4in (115 x 61.6cm)
spurious imperial seal, followed by three colophons in ink on paper $800 - 1,200
variously bearing signatures reading Chen Bangyan, Wang Jingming
and Shen Deqian with eight seals (losses, repairs, creases, stains). Provenance
20 3/4 x 255in (52.7 x 647.8cm) acquired from a Seattle Estate in 1981, by repute
$1,800 - 2,500
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE CROSTHWAITE FAMILY XU BIN (B. 1960)
Mynah Birds and Banana Leaves
2459 Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, titled, inscribed and with two
ZONG QIXIANG (1917-1999) artist’s seals, one reading Xu Bin zhi yin (stains, creases).
Lilies and Grasshopper, 1942 38 1/2 x 19 1/4in (97.8 x 48.9cm)
Mounted, framed and glazed, ink and color on paper, dated san shi i $800 - 1,200
nian qiu yue (1942, autumn) and signed Zong Qixiang with one artist’s
seal reading Zong shi. Provenance
31 1/2 x 18 1/2in (80 x 47cm) acquired from a Seattle Estate in the 1980’s, by repute
$1,500 - 2,500

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