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(US$154,800-193,500)
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SHEN QUAN (1682 - AFTER 1762)
CRANES OF LONGEVITY, DEER OF PROSPERITY
A pair of six-panelled screens, ink and colour on silk
Each measures 154.8 x 56.4 cm (60 7/8 x 22 1/4 in.)
Last panel of the Cranes screen entitled and signed: Zhi'xi Shen Quan, painting this at Jiannan Cao'tang
Dated Mid-autumn festival, gengwu year of the Qianlong era (1750)
Five seals of the artist: Shen Quan Zhi Yin, Nan Ping Shi, Heng Zhai, Dao Lao Xue Bu Zu, Jia Zhu Tiao Nan Yu Bu Xi
Last panel of the Deer screen entitled and signed: Nanping Shen Quan
Dated gengwu year of the Qianlong era (1750)
Five seals of the artist: Shen Quan, Heng Zhai, Jia Zhu Tiao Nan Yu Bu Xi, Heng Zhai Lao Ren Hua Ji; Bi Tou Mo Jin Yan Bu Jin
CRANES OF LONGEVITY, DEER OF PROSPERITY
A pair of six-panelled screens, ink and colour on silk
Each measures 154.8 x 56.4 cm (60 7/8 x 22 1/4 in.)
Last panel of the Cranes screen entitled and signed: Zhi'xi Shen Quan, painting this at Jiannan Cao'tang
Dated Mid-autumn festival, gengwu year of the Qianlong era (1750)
Five seals of the artist: Shen Quan Zhi Yin, Nan Ping Shi, Heng Zhai, Dao Lao Xue Bu Zu, Jia Zhu Tiao Nan Yu Bu Xi
Last panel of the Deer screen entitled and signed: Nanping Shen Quan
Dated gengwu year of the Qianlong era (1750)
Five seals of the artist: Shen Quan, Heng Zhai, Jia Zhu Tiao Nan Yu Bu Xi, Heng Zhai Lao Ren Hua Ji; Bi Tou Mo Jin Yan Bu Jin
Literature
1. Kobijutsu, Tokyo, issue no. 38.93, n.d.
2. Nihon no Bijutsu (The Arts of Japan), Japan, issue no. 326, n.d. 3. Shen Nanping Cong Mulu (Complete Catalogue of Works by Shen Quan), Japan, n.d.
4. Zhou Jiyin and Hedemi Kondo, Shen Quan Yanjiu (A Study of Shen Quan), Jiangsu Meishu Chubanshe, 1997, p.287