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FLOWERS AND BEES
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ZHAO SHAO'ANG (1905-1998)
FLOWERS AND BEES
Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and colour on paper
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist, dated May of 1944.
39 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (101 x 40 cm.)
FLOWERS AND BEES
Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and colour on paper
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist, dated May of 1944.
39 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (101 x 40 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted to Air Marshal Sir Lawrence Arthur Pattinson KBE, CB, DSO, MC, DFC (1890-1955) by Marshal Teng Hsi-hou (b. 1889) as a farewell gift upon his retirement in 1945. Air Marshal Sir Lawrence was a highly decorated Royal Air Force officer and the head of the Head of the RAF Training Mission to the Chinese Air Force. He was gifted various items by General Chiang Kai-shek, including a lacquer vase in 1943 which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, no. FE.82-1977, and a sword which was presented at the same time as the current lot.
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