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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR WALTER MÜLLER
清中晚期 趙伯駒（款） 設色絹本 橫批
175
WITH SIGNATURE OF ZHAO BOJU (18-19TH CENTURY)
Landscape
款識：趙千里。
Signed with one seal of the artist
Five collectors seals
Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and colour on silk
15⅜ x 128½. in. (39.21 x 326.6 cm.)
鈐印：千里
£8,000-12,000 US$11,000-16,000
€9,300-14,000 藏印：共5方
PROVENANCE: 來源：瓦爾特亩樂珍藏。於1968年至1987年間購自台灣。
Acquired in Taiwan between 1968 and 1987.
Mr Walter Müller, a Swiss mechanical engineer, led an illustrious career
in East Asia from the 1960s to 1980s. He lived in Taiwan from 1968 until 瑞士藏家苗樂先生於1960至1980年代常駐東亞，1970年
1987, for a portion of which time he served as Director of the Trade Ofice 代至1987年在台灣工作期間擔任瑞士商務辦事處主任，對
of Swiss Industries. In this role Mr Müller made signifcant contributions
to the establishment of Swiss banking operations in Taiwan. In recognition 當時台瑞經貿關係貢獻良多。1987年3月30日，中華民國經
of his contribution to Swiss-Taiwanese trade. Mr Müller was awarded the 濟部國際貿易局局長蕭萬長向苗樂先生頒贈獎牌，以作酬
key to the city of Taipei in 1987. In the same year, Vincent C. Siew, Director 謝，台北市市長更於同年頒贈台北市金鑰匙。
General of the Board of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Afairs, awarded
Mr Müller an oficial plaque 'In appreciation of his outstanding contribution
in promoting the trade relations between Switzerland and the Republic of
China'. 苗樂先生乃台北著名商家，收藏多幅中國古今名畫。其珍
藏的張大千畫作將於今年5月28日在香港佳士得拍賣。
As a leading business fgure in the expatriate community in Taipei, Mr Müller
collected both classical and modern and Chinese paintings. His collection of
works by Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) will be ofered in Christie's Hong Kong,
28 May 2019.

(Mr Walter Müller receiving the key to the city of Taipei, 1987)

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