Lot 78
78
LIU DAN (B. 1953)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
LIU DAN (B. 1953)

TAIHU SCHOLAR'S ROCK

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LIU DAN (B. 1953)
TAIHU SCHOLAR'S ROCK
Horizontal scroll, ink on paper.
Inscribed with two inscriptions: one comprised of twenty poems about Taihu rocks, the second signed by Liu Dan of Jin Ling, with two seals of the artist: Liu Dan Zhi Yin, Liu Dan Yin
together with the subject of the painting, an ivory-colored Taihu limestone scholar's rock of irregular outline pierced with numerous perforations and channels creating a sense of great depth, shown in its Xu Mi stone stand
Painting: 28 1/8 x 55½ in. (71.5 x 141 cm.), mounted, framed and glazed Rock: 41½ in. (105.5 cm.) high; with a Xu Mi stone stand, Ming dynasty, and a wood stand (2)

Descriptif du lot

Another similarly large taihu rock, with a white marble square stand of Ming date, which like the present stone stand has been adapted to hold the rock, was sold in these rooms, 20 September 2002, lot 99.

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