"THE SCHOLARS' MEETING IN THE WEST GARDEN" AFTER MA WENBI

Estimated Value:

500 € - 800 €

Schätzpreis:

2.600 €

Description:

China, late Qing dynasty
26,5 x 225 cm/ 27 x 40,5 cm
Ink and colors on silk, mounted as a handscroll. Full-length depiction of the meeting of sixteen most famous literati and scholars of the Northern Song Dynasty in the West Garden of Wang Shen, including Su Shi and his brother Su Zhe, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Monk Yuantong. At the end of the painting signed: "painted by Fu Feng Ma Wenbi". The garden landscape in blue-green style. Two seals: "Ma Wenbi", "Fu Feng". Two collector's seals: "Xiangxiang Zeng shi jinshi shuhua zhencang" (calligraphy and painting collection of Zeng family from Xiangxiang), "Li shi zhencang" (Li family collection). Followed by a colophon in Xingshu with comment, cyclically dated dinghai, signed "Mengjin Wang Duo", two seals: "chen Wang Duo yin", "Juesi". Brocade mounting.
From a southern German private collection, mostly acquired in Hong Kong and Jakarta in the 1960s/1970s - Silk slightly browned, minor soiled

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