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A PAINTING OF BO LE WITH HORSE
After Zhao Mengfu, Ming Dynasty or later
Ink and colour on silk, depicting a black and white spotted and
unsaddled horse, standing foursquare with its head raised, fitted with
green breast, crupper and halter straps and surrounded by three
grooms wearing loose trousers and robes secured by sashes at the
waist, signed Zi’ang and a collector’s seal reading Mo shou zhen cang,
glazed and framed.
29cm (11 3/8in) x 38.9cm (15 3/8in).

£8,000 - 12,000
CNY71,000 - 110,000

明或更晚 趙孟頫（傳） 伯樂相馬 設色絹本 鏡框

Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de Marchio (1887 -
1968), Grand Officer of the Italian Crown, Commander of the Order
of St Maurice and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of Pius
IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess Maragaretha d’Austria
Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de Marchio (1894 – 1986).
According to the collection inventory list, acquired in Beijing.

來源：
佛朗西斯高•瑪利亞，塔里安利•得•馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968）
及馬加烈特•奧地利-托斯卡納女大公，塔里安利•得•馬基奧女侯爵
（1894-1986）伉儷收藏
據檔案記載，購自北平

Depicted in this painting is the legendary horse tamer Bo Le 伯樂
from the Spring and Autumn period (771 - 476 BC). He was a famous
judge of horses and invented equine physiognomy. The motif of Bo Le
judging horses eventually became a metaphor for the recruitment of
able government officials.

During the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the Chinese scholar and painter
Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254–1322), also known as Zi’ang 子昂, was
particularly famous for his paintings of horses, which he used as a
symbolic plea for the proper use of scholarly talent by the new Mongol
administration; see Z.Hongxing, Masterpieces of Chinese Painting
700-1900, London, 2013, pp.218-219.

(inventory list)

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