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Lot Essay
The inscription of the current sale corresponds exactly to the impression recorded in Qianlong Baosou, Jiaqing Baosou, and Daoguang Baosou. The current seal belonged to a seal group comprising two other seals with the inscriptions Sanyouxuan (The Three Friends Studio) and Tianran tongde (In spontaneous harmony with virtue) and were kept in the Sanyouxuan at the Jianfu Palace within the Forbidden City. The impressions of this seal group can be found on Springtime at the Peach-Blossom Spring by Wang Yuanqi (1642-1715)in the Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, object number: 62-16 (fig. 2).
The current seal was in the collection of Ye Yiquan, who was the fourth son of the late-Qing business magnate Ye Chengzhong (1840- 1899) who pioneered the hardware industry in China. Ye Yiquan built the famous Jiangwan racecourse and used its revenue to fund the construction of a mansion and garden complex that became known as the Ye Garden or the Shanghai Garden of the Night, which he donated to the Shanghai Medical School in 1933. The complex forms part of the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital today. The current seal is accompanied by a brocade box with a label on the cover and an ink inscription with an inventory number on the base.
The current seal was in the collection of Ye Yiquan, who was the fourth son of the late-Qing business magnate Ye Chengzhong (1840- 1899) who pioneered the hardware industry in China. Ye Yiquan built the famous Jiangwan racecourse and used its revenue to fund the construction of a mansion and garden complex that became known as the Ye Garden or the Shanghai Garden of the Night, which he donated to the Shanghai Medical School in 1933. The complex forms part of the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital today. The current seal is accompanied by a brocade box with a label on the cover and an ink inscription with an inventory number on the base.