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5300 PROPERTY FROM THE SARKISIAN PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
ANONYMOUS (18TH/19TH CENTURY) COLLECTION, DENVER, COLORADO
Celebration in a Garden 5302
A set of eight large hanging panels, each
framed and glazed, ink and color on silk, 5301 AFTER QIAN WEICHENG (19TH/20TH
depicting an official wearing a light blue robe ATTRIBUTED TO DOWAGER EMPRESS CENTURY)
Quails, Flowers and Millet
and seated against a folding screen set in a CIXI (C. 1835-1908) Ink and color on silk, hanging scroll, inscribed
Peonies
garden surrounded with pavilions, the seated Ink and color on paper, hanging scroll now with a date and bearing a signature reading
figure attended by musicians, dancers,
arriving scholars, and attendants bearing gifts mounted, bearing a date reading Guangxu Chashan Qian Weicheng, with two seals
bingshen ji chun (1896, spring) and a
reading Chashan and Qian Weicheng yin and
and food offerings, with a large Taihu rock signature reading Yubi with three seals, two one collector’s seal (discoloration, creases).
dominating the center of the garden planted reading Cixi Huangtaihou yubi zhi bao and 30 x 17in (76.2 x 43.2cm)
with pine, juniper, and willow trees, and an Dayazhai.
auspicious deer at the edge of the garden;
the screen bearing a signature reading Lanling 50 1/2 x 24in (128.3 x 61cm) US$1,500 - 2,500
Xiao Huang with one seal reading Xiao Huang
(toning, stains, abrasions). US$1,500 - 1,800
59 1/2 x 21 5/8 (151.2 x 55cm) the inner
panels [6]
59 1/2 x 19 5/8in (151.2 x 49.8cm) the outer
panels [2]
US$8,000 - 12,000

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