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LOTS 3150-3153
PROPERTY FROM THE PROFESSOR FREDERICK SEgUIER DRAKE FAMILY COLLECTION
Professor Frederick Seguier Drake (1892-1976) was born in Shandong, China. From a distinguished English family, Drake was ordained minister as a young man and devoted himself to missionary work. Professor Drake was a traveller, and a scholar in Chinese and Divinity; as an archaeologist he travelled extensively within China and was Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at Qiliu (Cheeloo) University in Ji'nan, Shandong. After a brief return to his native England during the Chinese Civil War, Prof. Drake came to Hong Kong as Chair of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong and occupied the position for twelve years. Prof. Drake was widely respected by his students and within the academia. His most notable achievement included leading the archaeological excavation of the Lei Cheng UK Eastern Han Tomb in Hong Kong in the 1950s. Zhao Shao'ang gifted Prof. Drake with Birds and Flowers (Lot 3150) to celebrate his 72nd birthday and his retirement.
ZHAO SHAO'ANG (1905-1998)
Birds and Persimmons
细节
ZHAO SHAO'ANG (1905-1998)
Birds and Persimmons
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated mid-autumn, dingyou year (1957)
Dedicated to Yiwan
paper ink
90 x 39.5 cm. (35 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.)
20th Century
Birds and Persimmons
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated mid-autumn, dingyou year (1957)
Dedicated to Yiwan
paper ink
90 x 39.5 cm. (35 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.)
20th Century
荣誉呈献
Yanie Choi
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