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ANONYMOUS (19TH/20TH CENTURY)
Fragment of an Ancestor Portrait
Mounted, framed, and glazed, ink and color
on silk, likely cut down from a full-sized
portrait depicting a mustachioed official
wearing black robes, his hat and collar
trimmed with fur (cracks, repairs, stains,
fading).
20 1/2 x 14 7/8in (52 x 37.8cm) sight
US$600 - 800
PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY 9509 9510 9510A
OF LESTER KNOX LITTLE, LATE
INSPECTOR GENERAL, CHINESE 9510 9510A
MARITIME CUSTOMS SERVICE, ATTRIBUTED TO LU HONGNIAN LU HONGNIAN (C. 1914-1989)
ACQUIRED IN CHINA PRIOR TO 1949 (C. 1914-1989) A volume on the Spring and Autumn Classics
A volume on rare instruments by Wang and Notes by Du Yu decorated with a four-
9508 Zhongjie decorated with fore-edge paintings edge painting
ANONYMOUS (19TH CENTURY) The single volume from the Ming Chongzhen The single printed volume from the Ming
A pair of ancestor portraits, c. 1850 period publication Zhong Qian Wang Jiajing period publication Chun Qiu Jing
Ink and color on silk, a pair of hanging Zhongjie Gong Qi Tushuo Xu, with a fore- Zhuan Ji Jie, with a four-edge painting of
scrolls, depicting an official in his winter edge painting of a Landscape depicting the “Jesus Standing at Door Knocking”, the
court robes, and a woman wearing an “Flight into Egypt” in Chinese style, rendered painting rendered in Chinese style in ink and
elaborate red dragon robe and a gold, in ink and color, with a decorative cloth case. color, at the lower right signed Hongnian with
feather, and pearl-trimmed headdress (tears, 9.8 x 6.1in (25 x 15.5cm) dimensions of the one artist’s seal reading Lu, with a decorative
discoloration, creases, stains). book cloth case.
46 x 24 1/2in (116.8 x 62.3cm) 9.8 x 6.1in (25 x 15.5cm) dimensions of the
US$800 - 1,200 book
US$1,000 - 1,500 The tradition of fore-edge painting on books
was originated in Europe and introduced to US$800 - 1,200
PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS China by Dr. William Pettus in the early 20th
century. Working with Chinese artists at Furen Lu Hongnian, the artist of the “Jesus at
9509 Catholic University in Peking, Dr. Pettus would the Door” painting, graduated from Furen
ANONYMOUS (19TH-EARLY 20TH neatly package the newly adorned older University in 1936, and was well known for
CENTURY) books in attractive cloth boxes such as the his figure paintings as well as his wall murals.
Twelve Erotic Scenes ones included in this lot, and sell them to raise He was baptized into the Catholic faith, and
Ink and color on silk, twelve album leaves funds for his mission through Dawson’s Book painted many biblical scenes in the traditional
mounted as a horizontal handscroll. Shop in Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Chinese manner.
12 3/4 x 11in (32.5 x 28cm) each
US$1,000 - 1,500
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