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349 Provenance: an English private collection
AFTER LI GONGLIN ‘ELEGANT GATHERING IN THE WEST
GARDEN’ 來源： 英國私人收藏
Colophon with signature of Chunshi Dai (1801-1860), cyclically dated
to Bingchen year corresponding to 1859 and of the period Dai Xi 戴熙 (1801 – 1860), also known as Chunshi 醇士 (‘Pure
Ink and colour on silk, depicting scholars and attendants engaged in Scholar’) and Yu’an 榆庵 or (‘Elm Retreat’) was an artist representative
various activities such as playing music, painting and calligraphy, all of the Orthodox school of Wang Hui. He was a native of Qiantang (
within a garden setting with plantains, bamboo, wutong and pine trees, 钱塘）near Hangzhou but spent many years in Guangzhou. In 1832
a calligraphic colophon mounted separately. The painting, 291.5cm he became a scholar of the Hanlin Academy and later became Vice
(114 3/4in) long, the colophon: 43cm (17in) long. Minister of the Ministry of War, although he absented himself later from
illness.
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY17,000 - 26,000 In 1860 the Taiping rebels invaded Hangzhou. Dai participated in the
defence of the city but later committed suicide by drowning himself in
戴熙（1801至1860年）款 a pond. Dai was subsequently given the posthumous title Wenjie or
仿李公麟 西園雅集 設色絹本 手卷 丙辰年（1859年）作 ‘Cultured and Moderate’.

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