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Yang Pu-chih (1097-1169), attributed  <br>楊補之
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Yang Pu-chih (1097-1169), attributed
楊補之

“Branch of Blossoming Plum”

Hanging scroll, ink on silk
135.8 x 78.3 cm. (53 1/2 x 30 3/4 in.)

Seals:
Three, along left border, all illegible

Recent provenance:
Date collection, Sendai; Yamanaka Sadajiro collection

Published:
Dai Ni kai Sendai Dateke Gozohin Nyusatsu (“Second Sale of objects collected by Date of Sendai”), Tokyo Bijutsu Club, August, 1930, cat. 40.

(see write up below)

Anonymous (12th-13th Century)	無款
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Anonymous (12th-13th century) 無款

“Three Ducks on Riverbank”

Hanging scroll, ink on silk
158 x 92.8 cm. (62 1/4 x 36 5/8 in.)

Inscription:
“Picturing and painting in the presence of the Emperor, painted by ______.”

Artist’s seals:
One, illegible

(see write up below)

Anonymous (13th century)	  無款
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Anonymous (13th century) 無款

“Three Sparrows on Blossoming Plum”

Fan painting, ink and color on silk
27.8 x 20.3 cm. (11 x 8 in.)

Collector’s seals:
Ch’en-p’u yin; Chen-chai,

(see write up below)

K’o-shan (late-13th-14th century)	柯山
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K’o-shan (late-13th-14th century) 柯山

Bamboo and a Garden Rock

Hanging scroll, ink on paper
64 x 30.7 cm. (25 1/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

Artist’s seals:
K’o-shan and one other, illegible

Recent provenance:
Yabumoto Soshiro, Tokyo (1965); Setsu Gatodo, Tokyo

Recorded:
James Cahill: An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings, Berkeley, 1980, p. 329 (“…seal reading K’o-shan may be the artist’s.”)

(see write up below)

Ku Yen (early 17th century)  顧言
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Ku Yen (early 17th century) 顧言

“Dwellings of the Immortals” 1618

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
167.2 x 49.9 cm. (65 7/8 x 19 5/8 in.)

Inscription:
“During the ninth lunar month, autumn of the year 1618, painted after ‘Dwellings of the Immortals’ by Ku Yen, the Old Farmer.”

Artist’s seals:
Li Yen; Lao-nung

(see write up below)

Cheng P’ei (active third decade of the18th century)<br>鄭培
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Cheng P’ei (active third decade of the18th century)
鄭培

“Four Herons in Snow”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
111.3 x 49.2 cm. (43 7/8 x 19 3/8 in.)

Inscription (based on a poem by Hsiao Ying-shih (708-759):
“Birds! Birds!
Luxuriant seagulls and herons,
floating in the rapids, playing on a sandbar,
without let they are pure and white.
Cheng Wei-p’ei.”

Artist’s seals:
Cheng Wei-p’ei yin; Shan-ju

(see write up below)

Ts’ai Chia (1686-ca. 1756)  蔡嘉
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Ts’ai Chia (1686-ca. 1756) 蔡嘉

“Visiting Friend in Autumn Mountains”

Hanging scroll, ink on color on paper
111 x 39 cm. (43 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.)

Inscription:
“The entire mountain is devoid of trees, the tranquil distances glorious, the solitary figure faces forward, not thinking about the house ahead; Right now it seems as if we have had the fermentation of Hsin-feng, letting loose a long yell, completely intoxicated we return home.
Ts’ai Chia, called Chu-fang Lao-min.”

Artist’s seals:
Chien; T’ang

Published:
Ming-jen Shu-hua Chi, Shanghai, 1922, vol. 15.

(see write up below)

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