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VARIOUS ARTISTS (19TH/20TH CENTURY)
Three Calligraphies
a) Luo Bingzhang (1793-1866) Calligraphy
in Running Script, ink on gold-flecked paper,
dedicated to Yunsheng, dated guihai (1863),
signed Luo Bingzhang with two artist’s seals.
b) Cen Xuelu (1882-1963) Calligraphy in Running
Script, ink on paper, dedicated to Beishou,
signed Cen Xuelu with two artist’s seals.
c) Ruan Guocai (20th century) Calligraphy in
Running Script, ink on paper, dedicated to
Beishou, signed Ruan Guocai with two artist
seals (creases, tears, stains).
67 x 14in (170.2 x 35.6cm) the largest
$2,500 - 3,500

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VARIOUS ARTISTS (19TH/20TH CENTURY)
Three Calligraphies 3456
Three hanging scrolls, each ink on paper
a) Chen Jinghong (1903-1993) Calligraphy 3455 3456
in Running Script, ink on paper, dedicated to
Beishou, dated dingchou (1937) and signed
Cen Jinghong with two artist’s seals.
b) Liu Yangwen (1905-1991) Calligraphy in
Regular Script, ink on paper, dedicated to
Beishou, dated bingshen (1956) and signed
Liu Yangwen with two artist’s seals.
c) Attributed to Chen Rong (1876-1955) Calligraphy
in Running Script, ink on paper, dedicated to Jingbo
and signed Chen Rong with one artist’s seal reading
Yong’an (foxing, stains, creases).
52 x 12 3/8in (132.1 x 31.5cm) the largest
$1,200 - 1,500

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF
FENG-HWA MAH, SEATTLE, WA

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CHU GE (CHU KO, 1932-2013)
Three Couplets of Calligraphy in Running Script
Each a pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper,
with two couplets dated 1985 and dedicated to
Fenghua, one dedicated to Fenghua, Dingjian,
each signed Chu Ge with one or two artist’s seals.
53 1/2 x 12 7/8in (135.9 x 32.8cm);
43 3/4 x 9 3/8in (111.2 x 23.8cm);
27 5/8 x 3 3/4in (70.2 x 9.5cm)
$3,000 - 4,500

Feng-hwa Mah (Ma Fenghua 馬逢華, 1922-2013) 3457 3457
was a scholar of economics as well as a modern
literatus and poet. Born in the city of Kaifeng
in Henan province, Mah studied economics at
National Peking University and the University
of Michigan. From 1961 to 1987, he taught
economics at the University of Washington,
Seattle, retiring in 1987 with the title of Professor
Emeritus. Mah authored many articles on the
Chinese economy and published two books on
China’s foreign trade in 1963 and 1971. Mah also
published two collections of literary essays in 1993
and 2007, as well as a memoir in 2011 detailing
his early days of study in Beijing and his later life as
an émigré scholar. He hosted many of his fellow
literati such as Shen Congwen (1902-1988) and
Liang Shiqiu (1903-1987) during their visits to the
United States. Such meetings were the impetus
for the creation of the majority of the calligraphy
works and paintings in Mah’s collection that are
being offered in this auction.

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