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8213 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SEATTLE
COLLECTION
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8214 WANG JIQIAN (1906-2003)
Seascape with Sailboat
166 | BONHAMS Ink and color on paper, inscribed with a four-
character title yi fan feng shun, dedicated to
Pangnai Nushi (龎耐女士, Ms. Boney; Alice
Boney, 1901-1988), signed Wang Jiqian with
one artist’s seal reading Zhu Li Guan and one
collector’s seal; mounted as a frontispiece to
an album mounted with historic black-and-
white photographs of sites, landscapes, and
figures from China; on the cover a title slip
with a four-character title qian tu wu liang
and an inscription dedicating the volume to
Pangnai Nushi for her distant travel, with one
artist’s seal reading Wang Jiqian.
10 5/8 x 14in (27 x 35.6cm) dimensions of
painting
$4,500 - 6,000
Provenance
You Wei Du Zhai Collection, Seattle,
Washington
acquired in Philadelphia, 1992
王季遷 一帆風順 設色紙本 冊頁
During a long career that spanned sixty-five
years, Alice Boney (1901-1988) achieved
prominence as a dealer of Chinese and
Japanese art. Her clients included public
institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the Freer Gallery, and she was
instrumental in building the Ming and Qing
porcelain collection of President Herbert H.
Hoover. In 1958, Ms. Boney embarked on a
journey to Japan, where she would eventually
reside for sixteen years before returning to
New York. This painting by Wang Jiqian
appears to have been a parting gift to Boney
with well wishes for a bright future.
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
8214
SHEN SHIJIA (1906-2001), QIAN YIHAI
(19TH/20TH CENTURY) AND VARIOUS
CALLIGRAPHERS
Landscapes with calligraphy, 1930
Folding fan, ink and color on paper, each
side with a small painting, one by Shen Shijia,
reversed with one by Qian Yihai, each signed
by the respective artist, dated gengwu (1930),
augmented with calligraphy by Shen Jun and
Qi Fanniu (1877-1938).
19 1/2in (49.5cm) length
$1,500 - 2,500
申石伽、錢一海、戚飯牛、沈俊等 山水/書法
設色/水墨紙本 成扇