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           AFTER LANG SHINING (1688-1766)                    Provenance
           Landscape with European Figures                   Acquired in Beijing, prior to 1950
           Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed Haixi chen Lang   Collection of O. Edmund and Mariann Clubb
           Shining, with two artist’s seal with seven spurious Imperial collection
           seals, and two collector’s seals of Pu Ru.        來源:
           96 1/2 x 61 1/2in (245.1 x 156.2cm)               1950年之前購於北京
                                                             O. Edmund與Mariann Clubb收藏
           $7,000 - 10,000
                                                             Oliver Edmund Clubb (1901-1989) was an American Foreign Service
           (仿)郎世寧 歐式風景人物 設色紙本 立軸                             officer who first went to China in 1929. According to his obituary in the
                                                             Washington Post, Clubb was last American diplomat stationed in Peking
                                                             after 1949, and with his lowering of the flag at the American consulate in
                                                             China in April 1950, the embassy was shuttered until 1979.



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