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CHEN CHUNYU (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY) Hu Tong’en 胡彤恩 (late Qing dynasty), studio name Wu’an (勿庵), was
Orchid Pavilion, cyclically dated Wushen year (1848) from Sanshui in Guangdong Province. Little is known of his life except
Handscroll, ink and colours on silk depicting scholars amidst a that he became a jinshi degree holder during the Guangxu reign, and
mountainous landscape, cups flowing down a stream, colophon and was an official in the Department of Criminal Justice.
seals of Hu Tong’en (active mid 19th Century) cyclically dated to the
Jiayin year (1854) and seals. The literati gathering in Orchid Pavilion near Shanyin (present day
The calligraphy 95cm (37 1/2in) long x 21.5cm (8 1/2in) high; Shaoxing) in 353 CE, became a symbolic event in literati cultural
The landscape 131cm (51 1/2in) high x 21.5cm (8 1/2in) high. history, immortalised by the writings of the sage of calligraphy Wang
Xizhi (303-361). Wang Xizhi wrote the canonical work of calligraphy
£3,000 - 5,000 ‘Preface to Orchid Pavilion’, for the poetry written by 42 literati
CNY27,000 - 45,000 engaged in a drinking contest. As the present lot shows, wine cups
were floated down a small winding creak as the men sat along its
banks; whenever a cup stopped, the man closest to the cup was
陳春雨 蘭亭修褉圖 一八四八年作 絹本設色 手卷 required to empty it and write a poem. Apart from the calligraphy
of Wang Xizhi, the event itself encapsulated an elegant and poetic
Provenance: an English private collection lifestyle that generations of scholars forever after strove to emulate
and represent in paintings such as the present lot. For an ink rubbing
來源：英國私人收藏 of a related scene of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, see G.Tsang and
H.Moss, Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, no.28.

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