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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT
Lot 816
A RARE PAIR OF ENAMELED 'LUOHAN' DISHES, SIGNED WANG BU, REPUB LIC PERIOD
Estimate: 10,000 - 15,000 USD
A RARE PAIR OF ENAMELED 'LUOHAN' DISHES, SIGNED WANG BU
REPUBLIC PERIOD
民國 粉彩海慧談經圖盤一對 《長湖》款
each masterfully painted in a highly eccentric style, the first depicting a luohan seated on a mat of leaves and holding a long slab
supporting a small cup, with a pile of sutra albums set aside and a misty waterfall in the background, accompanied by four stylized
archaistic characters reading Haihui tanjing (Haihui discussing sutra), followed by an inscription and two characters Zhuxi and a
square seal Wang Bu, the base inscribed with a two-character seal mark changhu (long lake); the second painted with a seated
luohan contemplating among vaporous clouds, similarly inscribed and marked (2)
題識:
海慧談經 竹溪
印文:
王步
Diameter 8⅝ in., 22 cm
Provenance
French Private Collection, acquired at Hôtel Drouot, Paris (by repute).
來源
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-chinese-art?locale=en 428/435