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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION ᑽᕴ㕵⿀⏩́ⳉި (LOT 839)

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WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559) According to the colophons (Fig. 1), Seven
Seven Poems in Running Script Poems in Running Script was owned by
Handscroll, ink on paper Chisokuin Takamitsu (1649-1724). In
35 x 706 cm. (13 Æ x 278 in.) 1762, it was sold to Numano Kunimitsu
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the of Senshu Sano. Kunimitsu and his son
artist Numano Kunimoto collected important
Dated tenth day, mid-spring, gengzi year of Chinese calligraphy, including this
the Jiajing period (1540) handscroll and works by Zhu Yunming and
Four collector’s seals of Ichibei Masakiyo Dong Qichang.
(17th Century) There exists two versions of ink-rubbings
Colophons at the end of the handscroll of Seven Poems in Running Script. One was
published by Shoseikan in 1879 (Fig. 2) and
LITERATURE: the other one is now in the collection of
Zhou Daozheng ed. Works by Wen Zhengming,
Yangzhou Library.
Vol. II, Shanghai Classics Publishing,
Shanghai, October 1987, pp.290-294 and 312. HK$2,000,000-4,000,000
NOTE: US$260,000-520,000
Wen Zhengming executed Seven Poems in
Running Script at the age of seventy. Since ᒞ ᐸ࿌ᒞ ⻎ᕋĚ⦫ᕋだ˒㩿
his retirement, Wen often calligraphed his ᥆ગ♒ᕵ ᆿڱ ː̪ौƾໞθ
poems. A handscroll executed when he
was eighty-eight is now in the collection of
National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Fig. 1 Colophons at the end of the handscroll
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