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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARK S PRATT
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WANG SHIYI (17TH CENTURY) ATTRIBUTED TO DONG QICHANG (1555-1636)
Fighting for Water Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed Wang Hanging scroll, ink and color on gold-flecked paper,inscribed and
Shiyi, with one artist’s seal reading Shiyi, colophons by Wang Shimin signed Dong Xuanzai, with one seal of the artist Dong Qichang yin,
(dated 1679), Shen Quan, and Chen Tingjing (dated 1679), with with three collectors’ seals at lower left jinshi zhai cang, Shigen
additional collectors’s seals, including tingfeng lou and Jize. jiancang, and Yuan Hao shu?, and mounted with a colophon by Yuan
37 x 20in (94 x 50.8cm) Hao (Qing dynasty), with four seals reading Yuan Hao, Shigen, motan
fo, and changsheng.
$4,000 - 6,000 24 x 10 1/4in (61 x 26cm)
王時翼 爭水圖 水墨紙本 立軸 $10,000 - 15,000

The artist was a native of Taicang, cousin of Wang Shimin. The (傳) 董其昌 山水 設色薩金箋 立軸
painting described a group of peasants fighting over water. The three
inscriptions on the painting all indicate farmers were suffering from a
prolonged dry weather. Wang Shimin and Cheng Tingjing’s are both
dated yiwei year (1679), a year historically recorded with a severe
drought sweeping over the Jiangnan area.

According to the titleslip and collector’s seals, the panting was
formerly in the collection of Pan Zhengwei (潘正煒, 1791-1850).
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