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ANONYMOUS (18TH-19TH CENTURY)

PORTRAIT OF YUNRENG, PRINCE LI

Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on silk
224.5 x 145.7 cm. (80 1/2 x 57 1/3 in.)
Inscription on the mounting by Dongyuan Jushi, with a brief biography of Yunren.

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(US$10,300-12,900)

NOTE:
Yunreng (1674-1724), second son of the Emperor Kangxi (reigned 1662-1722), was crowned prince to succeed Kangxi in the fourteenth year of the Kangxi era (1675). In the ninth month of the forty-seventh year of the Kangxi era (1708), he was deposed as crown prince and placed under house arrest. In the third month the following year (1709), Yunreng was re-instated as crown price. This lasted three years when in the tenth month of the fifty-first year of the Kangxi era (1712), he was deposed and put under house arrest again. Yunreng died in the twelve month of the second year of the Yongzheng era (1724), and the title Heshi, Prince Li, was conferred on him posthumously.
For brief biography, see Zhongguo Lidai Renming Dacidian, Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1999, p.1716

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