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A FAMILLE ROSE INSCRIBED 'FIGURAL' PLAQUE 民國 王琦繪粉彩人物圖詩文瓷板
REPUBLIC PERIOD (1912-1949), WITH TWO SEAL MARKS OF WANG QI
(1884-1937) 礬紅「匋迷」「西昌王琦」印款
The plaque is painted with a riverscape scene featuring a male fgure and a
boy attendant in a fshing boat, below a poetic inscription which ends with two
iron-red seal marks of Wang Qi, reading 'tao mi' and 'xi chang Wangqi'. 題字:
15⅛ x 10 in. (38.5 x 25 cm.)
秋水才深四五尺，野航恰受兩三人
£10,000-15,000 US$14,000-20,000
€12,000-17,000 撫黃慎之筆法於珠山
西昌匋迷散人王琦並寫
PROVENANCE:
Private American Collection since the early 1980s, by repute from an estate in
Santa Barbara.
來源: 美國私人珍藏，於1980年代初入藏，傳購自聖巴巴
The long inscription contains two lines from Du Fu's Tang poem Nan Lin
which complements the depicted fgural scene, and can be translated as 'the 拉舊宅
water in autumn is only four or fve feet deep, the boat can merely contain
two or three people'. The rest of the inscription can be translated as 'in
imitation of the style of Huang Shenzhi, by Wangqi in Zhushan'.

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