WANG QUAN (ACTIVE LATE QING- DYNASTY TO EARLY REPUBLIC PERIOD)

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1.500 € - 2.500 €

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Description:

China, dated 1884
178 x 40 cm
Peonies, cherry blossoms and deutzia. Ink and delicate colors on silk, mounted as a handsroll for hanging. A poem inscription and signature: "In the last ten days of the eighth month in the autumn of the jiashen year.... painted by Pingfa Youtang Wang Quan", an artist's seal: "Youtang xie sheng".
South German private collection, acquired in the early 1980s
Wang Quan, style name Youtang, from Shanghai was a flower painter in the late Qing dynasty to early Republic period. He was a student of Zhu Cheng (1826-1900), the famous painter of the Shanghai school
Signs of age, browned, mounting partly damaged

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