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Scholar Gathering, 19th century
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, bearing a signature reading Provenance
Songnian, with four illegible seals, with a title slip, frontpiece, and box Flodins, Stockholm (receipt)
all inscribed by Chen Qiquan and dated to dingyi year (1977), with
an additional spurious frontpiece signed Ke Jiusi and two colophons With a letter both in Chinese and English from the National Museum
signed Qian Yanru and Gu Dingchen. of History, Taipei, 18 May 1978, written by Ho Hao-Tian. The letter
13 1/4 x 170in (33.8 x 431.8cm) stated the handscroll together with lot 276 are both more than one
hundred years old. The museum was commissioned to mount the
$6,000 - 8,000 paintings. There is a second authentication letter in Chinese by He
Ho-tian and Zhuang Yan indicating the handscroll with lot 276 were
佚名 十八學士圖 設色絹本 手卷 十九世紀 painted during the Qing period.
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