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Li Yaoping (1880-1937) Chinese School (18th century)
Scholar by Pavilion Ink and pigment on silk; a fan painting
Ink and pigment on silk, inscribed and signed depicting a lady and her female attendant
Li Yaoping, dated yichou year (1925), two red carrying a jar and a tray and ascending a
seals of artist, framed and glazed. staircase, possibly to a temple; framed and
40.5cm (16in) x 112cm (44 1/8in) glazed.
35cm (13 3/4in) x 36.5cm (14 3/8in)
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY19,000 - 28,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000 £500 - 800
CNY4,700 - 7,600 HK$5,900 - 9,500
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Chinese School (18th century) Provenance
Dated by inscription to the gengwu year Reputedly collected by Andreas Franklin, a
(AD1750) British Consul in Formosa, during the 1940’s
Ink and pigment on silk, a fragment depicting or 1950’s.
figures in a luxurious interior, with a kneeling
male attendant offering a golden jue on a
lacquer tray to an elegant lady, inscribed
beside a red seal; framed and glazed.
22cm (8 5/8in) x 25.5cm (10in)

£600 - 800
CNY5,700 - 7,600 HK$7,100 - 9,500

Provenance
Understood to have been collected by an
Andreas Franklin, a British Consul in Formosa,
during the 1940’s or 1950’s.

Inscribed:
庚午桂(?)月寫扵
珠海南樓以為
碩臣人兄大人誨正
弟曾貫雄

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