Chinese Painting & Calligraphy

Anonymous (13th-14th century)
無款
[old attribution to Li Ti]
舊傅李廸

“Eagle on Winter Branch”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
153.3 x 82.5 cm. (60 3/8 x 32 1/2 in.)

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Chen Zihe 陳子和
(late 15th-16th century)

“Geese and Reeds in Moonlight”

Hanging scroll, ink on silk
157.0 x 90.0 cm. (61 3/4 x 29 1/4 in.)

Inscription:
“Chen Zihe.”

Artist’s seal:
Pucheng Chen Shaixian
(“Seal of the Untrammeled Immortal Chen from Pucheng”)

Japanese box inscription:
Dated to 1863

Recent provenance:
Tokugawa Keiki (1837-1913)
Higashi Honganji Temple, Kyoto
Private collection, Bouasse-Lebel

Published:
Objets d’Art d’Extreme Orient, catalogue of auction at Hotel Drouot, 1949, lot. 478.

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Zhang Xin [Chang Hsin] 張莘
(1744- ca. 1820)

Calligraphy in xing running-script style:
“White-rock Cliff Cottage” 1783

Hanging scroll, ink on paper
135.5 x 46.5 cm. (53 3/8 x 18 1/4 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Chang K’un; Chung-chu-jen (“Bamboo-planting Man”); Hsi-kao (“Worthless Westerner”)

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Fang Ming 方洺 (1881-1940)

“Naruto Whirlpools” 1935

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
74.4 x 87.5 cm. (29 5/8 x 34 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“In Japan there is a fortress-like pass,
the strait called Naruto;
Each day at noon and midnight
the tide comes like a rushing dragon.
Turning round and round,
it makes a whirlpool;
Blue waves splash white and cold,
pouring down like an overturned plate.
Dangerous and narrow, the boat men lament,
its strangeness requires the soul of a painter;
Climbing high and looking around,
one feels as though in the K’un-lun Mountains.

Master of the Ts’an-chu Retreat, Fang Ming (painted this)
and also inscribed a poem during spring of the year 1935.

Artist’s seal:
Fang Tzu-i Shih

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Wu Changshi [Wu Ch’ang-shih] 吳昌碩 (1844-1927) and
Ni Tian [Ni T’ien] 倪田 (1855-1919)

“Autumn Flowers”

Folding fan mounted as a hanging scroll
Ink and color on paper
18.0 x 52.0 cm. (7 1/8 x 20 1/2 in.)

Artists’ seals: Jun; Baotian

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