Lot Essay
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WANG HUI (1632-1717)
LANDSCAPE OF WANGCHUAN
Handscroll, ink and colour on silk
35.5 x 477.5 cm (14 x 188 in.)
Poetic inscription at the end of the scroll and signed by the artist: Wumu Shanzhong ren Wang Hui
Three seals of the artist: Geng Yan, Ba Shi Lao Ren Wang Hui, Tai Yuan Dated first day, fourth month, xinmao year (1711)
Two collector's seals of Cai Bohao (19th-20th century)
Colophon at the end of the scroll by Xu Shujun (1842-1910), dated twenty-ninth year of the Guangxu year (1903), signed, with three seals One collector's seal
Note:
Xu Shujun, sobriquet name Shuhong, was the son of Xu Feng and a native of Changsha, Hunan. He passed the official examination in the seventh year of the Xianfeng era (1847). He was an avid calligrapher and was also a good seal carver.
LANDSCAPE OF WANGCHUAN
Handscroll, ink and colour on silk
35.5 x 477.5 cm (14 x 188 in.)
Poetic inscription at the end of the scroll and signed by the artist: Wumu Shanzhong ren Wang Hui
Three seals of the artist: Geng Yan, Ba Shi Lao Ren Wang Hui, Tai Yuan Dated first day, fourth month, xinmao year (1711)
Two collector's seals of Cai Bohao (19th-20th century)
Colophon at the end of the scroll by Xu Shujun (1842-1910), dated twenty-ninth year of the Guangxu year (1903), signed, with three seals One collector's seal
Note:
Xu Shujun, sobriquet name Shuhong, was the son of Xu Feng and a native of Changsha, Hunan. He passed the official examination in the seventh year of the Xianfeng era (1847). He was an avid calligrapher and was also a good seal carver.