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Anonymous Anonymous, 17/18th century
The Spring Dragon Rising, 16th/17th century Scholar and Attendant in a
Hanging scroll, ink on silk, with two indistinct seals. Mountainous Landscape
71 x 37 1/4in (180.3 x 94.6cm)
$10,000 - 15,000 Hanging scroll, ink on silk, lacking an inscription, but with two spurious
seals of Zhao Mengfu reading Zhao Shi Zi’ang and Songxue zhai.
無款 春龍圖 水墨絹本 立軸 十六／十七世紀作 60 x 42in (152.4 x 106.6cm)
$5,000 - 7,000
This exquisitely painted scene, depicting a dragon floating in a shroud of 無名氏 高士山水 設色絹本 立軸 十七/十八世紀作
billowing clouds, shows the influence of a long line of dragon painters.
The cottony cloud forms, the almost whimsical expression on the dragon’s
face, and the vivid plasticity of the beast’s form, trumpet the influence
of the Southern Song dragon painter Chen Rong (陳容 ca. 1200–1266).
The artist displays a masterful use of ink and a close study of nature in
rendering the antler-like textures of the claws and horns, the leathery
scales and the wispy hairs of the creature’s beard, all modulated by the
mists swirling in the foreground.
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