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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE                           PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS                     9058
SEATTLE COLLECTION                                                                                 ANONYMOUS (REPUBLIC PERIOD)
                                                  9057                                             One Hundred Boys
9056                                              ANONYMOUS (20TH CENTURY)                         Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, now
LI XIUYI (1811-1861)                              Washing the Elephant                             mounted for framing (discoloration, stains,
Flowers, 1849                                     Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, bearing   cracks, creases).
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, inscribed  a partial inscription reading shen pin shang     48 x 24 1/4in (122 x 61.6cm)
with a poetic quatrain, dated Daoguang jiyou      with two seals, mounted with a title above, ink
chun er yue (1849, spring, second month)          on silk, reading Zeng Zhongyuan sao xiang tu     US$800 - 1,200
and signed Li Xiuyi with two seals of the artist  and with five seals (trimmed, fading, stains,
reading Zijian and yan guan Li Xiuyi zhang and    creases, losses).
one collector’s seal.                             48 1/2 x 26 1/4in (123.2 x 66.7cm)
40 x 11in (101.6 x 28cm)
                                                  US$1,500 - 2,500
US$1,000 - 1,500

Provenance
acquired in Shanghai in 1988

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