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Lot Essay
Guan Xining, Jiangsu Yangzhou native, was closed to the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and had a special friendship with Wang Shishen. Guan dedicated this painting to Wang as a farewell souvenir. Wang inscribed on the painting in 1739, and Wang’s contemporaries wrote various colophons in which Gao Xiang made a sketch as well.
The work was later collected by Huang Yafu (Wong Ah Fook), a Singapore entrepreneur whose son Huang Zijing later gifted it to Luo Mingshi (Law Ming Shek) in 1939. It has been in the family collection since then.
The work was later collected by Huang Yafu (Wong Ah Fook), a Singapore entrepreneur whose son Huang Zijing later gifted it to Luo Mingshi (Law Ming Shek) in 1939. It has been in the family collection since then.