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ANONYMOUS (17TH/18TH CENTURY) QUE LAN (1758-1844) The important Italian collector lived and
Equestrian musician Crane, dated 1815 worked in Shanghai between 1932 and
Ink and pigment on paper, depicting a female Ink and pigment on silk, inscribed and dated, 1936, as representative of his Italian
musician on horseback, with an attendant, mounted on silk brocade. 103.5cm (40 3/4in) company and in 1937, following the Sino-
in a landscape of pine and rockwork, framed x 189cm (74 3/8in) Japanese war, was transferred to Dalian in
and glazed. 111cm x 48cm (43.3/4in x Southern Manchuria. After a brief period
18.7/8in). £3,000 - 5,000 spent in Italy in 1938, he returned to
HK$31,000 - 52,000 Shanghai where he lived between 1939 and
£800 - 1,200 CNY26,000 - 44,000 1940. He then moved to Beijing where he
HK$8,300 - 12,000 lived between 1941 and 1946 and formed
CNY7,100 - 11,000 The Property of a Lady the vast majority of his collection of Chinese
Art.

Provenance: A distinguished Italian private
collection formed circa 1930s-1940s, and
thence by descent

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