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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION
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ANONYMOUS, AFTER LIU SONGNIAN (ACTIVE 1175-AFTER The present lot is based on an album leaf originally by Liu Songnian
1295), INSTRUCTING THE PRINCE (active 1175-after 1295) and now in the collection of the National
18th/19th century Palace Museum, Taipei. A second similar composition, formerly
Horizontal handscroll, ink and color on silk, bearing an inscription in the attributed to the Song Dynasty Emperor Huizong (1082-1135), and
style of Song Emperor Huizong and several spurious seals. featuring a similar slender gold inscription as the present lot, is in the
10 1/4 x 44 1/2in (26 x 113cm) collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (13.220.89), acquired in
1913. That scroll is presently dated as “Ming/Qing dynasty”.
$5,000 - 7,000
The present painting exhibits particularly fine brushwork. The figures’
佚名 倣劉松年明皇訓儲圖 手卷 十八/十九世紀 faces are alive with animation and expression, and despite the sparse
furnishings the artist graces the painting with lovely details.
Provenance:
The Collection of Che-Fuh Chao (1900-1987), co-founder of the Zung
Fu Company in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and thence by descent
within the family to the present owner

來源:
趙桂馥收藏，後由家族成員繼承，趙桂馥為仁孚行奠基人之一

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