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ANONYMOUS (QING DYNASTY) ATTRIBUTED TO QIU YING (1494–1552)
Eagle on Pine Scholars in a Blue Green Landscape
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, signed Shi Fu Qiu Ying,
53 x 30 1/2in (134.5 x 77.5cm) with two seals.
16 1/4 x 11 7/8in (41.4 x 30cm)
$6,000 - 9,000
$5,000 - 7,000
無款 清
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Provenance
Collection of Mark S. Pratt, Washington D.C. Provenance
Collection of Mark S. Pratt, Washington D.C.
The subject of this unsigned painting of Eagle on Pine hearkens back
to the works of the Ming court masters Lin Liang and Lu Ji, both 8246
specialists in paintings of birds. Instead of situating the heroic eagle in AFTER MA YUAN
an elaborate natural environment, the Qing dynasty painter of this work Landscape with Figures
stood his eagle on a sturdy pine branch in the foreground, allowing Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, with five collectors’ seals,
the viewer a more intimate connection with these symbols of strength, mounted with a title slip with an inscribed title and bearing the date
endurance and longevity. Daoguang san nian (1823) and a signature reading Li Fengjiang.
60 x 37in (152.4 x 94cm)

$4,000 - 6,000

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