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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 765

LI SHAN 1686-1762 | FLOWERS, FRUITS, FISH AND VEGETABLES
Estimate: 200,000 - 250,000 USD

LI SHAN 1686-1762
FLOWERS, FRUITS, FISH AND VEGETABLES, ink and color on silk, handscroll
李鱓 1686-1762
花果爭妍 設色絹本 手卷

signed Futang Ao daoren Li Shan, dated seventh year of the Qianlong reign (1742), fourth month, and with two seals of the artist, li
shan, and zong yang, and fifteen collectors’ seals, including six of Gu Xiaokun, gu xiao kun zhen cang yin, gu, xiao kun, long bo ge
cang, gu shi, xiao kun zhi yin, and nine others, tang wang song li ming tang, san tang ju, jin shi min qiu zhai suo cang shu hua, tian
shang tang, gu gong, jin, tian he yan zai, cun jing yu shang,and gu zhao xi yin.
Titleslip by Lu Hui (1851-1920), signed Lu Hui tiqian, and with one seal of the artist.
Attached frontispiece on paper by Cheng Shifa (1921-2007), dated yichou, 1985, spring, signed Cheng Shifa ti, and with two seals
of the artist, shi fa, and cheng tong.
Attached colophon on paper by Cheng Shifa, signed Cheng Shifa tiyu Longboge dengxia, dated yi chou, 1985, first month, eighth
day, and with two seals of the artist, shi fa, and cheng tong, and two collector’s seals, xiao kun, and long bo ge.
Wood box (3)

款識：乾隆七年四月寫於滕陽，復堂懊道人李鱓。鈐印：李鱓、宗揚
鑒藏印：顧小坤珍藏印、顧、小坤、龍柏閣藏、唐王宋李明唐、三唐居、靳氏敏求齋所藏書畫、天賞堂、古公、靳、天何言哉、存精寓
賞、梁谿顧氏、小坤之印、顧肇熙印

Height 17 in., 43.2 cm; Width 136 in., 345.4 cm

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