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TEN BAMBOO STUDIO SHI ZHU ZHAI JIAN PU TWO VOLUMES ON CHINESE ARTISTS’ SEALS
Woodblock prints, ink and color on paper, four volumes, in a Signature and Seals of Artists, Connoisseurs and Collectors on
clothbound slipcase, Beijing, Rongbaozhai, 1952. Paintings and Calligraphy since the Ts’in Dynasty (Hong Kong, 1964)
$3,000 - 5,000 Volume II only, together with Victoria Contag and C.C. Wang, Seals of
Chinese Painters and Collectors of the Ming and Ch’ing Periods (Hong
十竹齋箋譜 雕版印刷 四卷 一九五二年作 Kong, 1965).
$800 - 1,200
Originally compiled by the late Ming dynasty seal carver Hu Zhengyan
(1584-1674), this collection of decorated letter papers was re-issued 《明清書畫印鑒兩冊》
by Zheng Zhenduo in the 1930’s. Offered here, the 1952 reprint is a
faithful facsimile of the seventeenth century edition, even incorporating PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS
the blind-stamping technique of gauffrage (gonghua 拱花 “embossed
design” or “arched pattern”) where a dry woodblock is pressed into 8127
the paper to create a subtle, low-relief design. On the 1952 edition, SONG YUAN BAO HUI, RARE PAINTINGS OF SUNG AND YUAN
Jan Tschichold remarked “the finest issue. An incomparably perfect DYNASTIES, MANCHU ROYAL HOUSE COLLECTION
facsimile; the best printed book of modern times anywhere.” Circa 1930 collotype, unpaginated, approximately 100 illustrations,
with the original cloth case.
8125 14 1/8 x 15 3/8in (36 x 39cm)
FIVE BOOKS ON CHINESE PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY $800 - 1,200
Including Songren Huace (Song Album Paintings) (Peking, 1957), Yuan
Ming Landscapes (Beijing, 1924), Hyakushasei Zorekiso Meijin Hosho 《清宮藏宋元寶繪》
(Tokyo, 1938), Style Transformed (Taipei, 1977), Portfolio of Chinese
paintings [in the museum], Yüan to Ch’ing periods (Boston, 1961).
$1,000 - 1,500

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