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QI YING (1790-1858)

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QI YING (1790-1858)

CALLIGRAPHY AFTER THE TWO WANGS

A set of four handscrolls, ink on silk
Various sizes
Each scroll with a frontispiece of a painting of Qi Ying, in various poses, with four seals
Each scroll signed: Jie Chun or Jie Weng
Each scroll with two seals of the artist: Xi Jin Zhai, Qi Ying Yong Chun
The start of each scroll with two official guan fang seals
The end of each scroll with inscriptions by Sai Shang'a ( ), Ji Rui ( ), Sun Ruizhen ( ), Du Shoutian ( ), Jia Zhen ( ), Luo Jiyan ( ), Qi Junzao (1793-1866), Chen Fuqie ( )
End of each scroll with a painting of literati accoutrments such as rubbings, ink stones and ink sticks
Titleslip of each scroll by Ye Mingchen ( ), Zhao Changling ( ), Li Zhangyu ( ), and Zhang Lin ( ) respectively
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Lot Essay

(US$10,300-12,900)

Note:
For brief biography of Qi Ying, see Zhongguo Lidai Renwu Minghao Dacidian, Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1999, p.1842

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