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YUN XI (1711-1758)

RECLUSE LIFE
Ink and colour on paper, mounted as hand scroll.
Signed with two seals from the artist.
8º x 67Ω in. (22.5 x 171 cm.)

£10,000-20,000

Yun Xi was the twenty-frst son of the Kangxi emperor. He was made a beizi
(earl) in the eighth year of the Yongzheng era (1730), and soon became a beile
(marquis). When Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, Yun Xi was made Shen
Junwang (the Duke of Shen). Yun Xi was a very able artist, following both the
ancient style of Dong Yuan and that of Wen Zhengming. He died in the twenty-
third year of the Qianlong era, and the emperor Qianlong’s sixth son Yong Rong
was appointed as his heir.

For brief biography, see Aixinjueluo Jiazu Quanshu (The Aixinjueluo family), Jilin
Renmin Chubanseh, 1996, vol.8., pp.62-62

允禧 溪山隱居圖 設色紙本 手卷

題識:乾隆丁丑年暮冬月 紫瓊道人允禧臨古
鈐印: 「慎郡王章」，「辛卯人」

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EIGHT HORSES
EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk.
Painted in the style of Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1768), inscribed Chen Lang
Shining gonghui with two seals, with an apocryphal Qianlong seal.
13æ x 44Ω in (34.7 x 113 cm.)

£10,000-20,000 $15,000-28,000
€13,000-25,000

PROVENANCE:

Formerly in the collection of American poet Witter Bynner (1881-1968),
bequeathed to the Roswell Museum in New Mexico in the 1950’s and subsequently
deaccessioned in 1997.

Castiglione was better known in China as Lang Shining who frst arrived in
Macao in 1715, and then went to Beijing where he remained until his death.
He became part of the group of Western advisers at the imperial court where
he painted for a succession of three Qing emperors: Kangxi, Yongzheng and
Qianlong, and was also responsible for the training of Chinese court artists.

八駿圖 郎世寧款 二十世紀初 設色絹本 立軸

來源:美國著名詩人Witter Bynner（1881-1968）私人舊
藏，1950年代被美國Roswell博物館收藏之後於1997年售出

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