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WANG SHANZHI (ACTIVE 1920-1940)
‘Plum blossoms’, ‘Orchid’, ‘Bamboo’ and
‘Chrysanthemum’
Ink on paper, four paintings mounted as
hanging scrolls. Inscribed and signed
Shanzhi, with seals of the artist, 1920s-30s.
128cm (50 3/8in) high x 32.2cm (12 5/8in)
wide (4).

£500 - 800
HK$4,200 - 6,800
CNY3,900 - 6,200
To be sold without reserve

Provenance
Dr Walter Rieder (1890-1986)

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AFTER LU SHIDAO, AFTER QIAN
WEICHENG (19TH/20TH CENTURY),
AFTER HUNG WU (19TH/20TH
CENTURY) AND ZHANG XIONG (1803-
1886)
‘Landscape with figures’, ‘Quails Under a
Flowering Tree’, ‘Landscape After Huang
Gongwang’ and ‘Mynah Birds on Branches’
Ink and colour on silk. The first, bearing
436 a spurious signature reading Lu Shidao
(1510-1573); the second, bearing a spurious
signature reading Qian Weicheng (1720-
1772), both framed and glazed; the third,
bearing a spurious signature reading Yaohua
Daoren, mounted as hanging scroll, with
fitted box; the fourth, painted on paper,
folding fan leaf, framed and glazed.
The largest: 97cm (38 1/8in) high x 33.5cm
(13 1/4in) wide (5).

£600 - 800
HK$5,100 - 6,800
CNY4,600 - 6,200

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Provenance
Mrs Gret Hasler, Winterthur, Switzerland,
and thence by descent

In 1937, a trip to New York, Chicago and
Washington was the starting point for Mrs
Gret Hasler’s interest in Chinese art. This
she continued until the Second World War
by acquiring objects from dealers in Paris,
Sweden and New York.

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