REPUBLIC PERIOD (1912-1949), WITH TWO SEAL MARKS OF WANG QI (1884-1937)

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A FAMILLE ROSE INSCRIBED 'FIGURAL' PLAQUE
REPUBLIC PERIOD (1912-1949), WITH TWO SEAL MARKS OF WANG QI (1884-1937)
The plaque is painted with a riverscape scene featuring a male figure and a boy attendant in a fishing boat, below a poetic inscription which ends with two iron-red seal marks of Wang Qi, reading 'tao mi' and 'xi chang Wangqi'.
15 1/8 x 10 in. (38.5 x 25 cm.)

Provenance

Private American Collection since the early 1980s, by repute from an estate in Santa Barbara.

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Lot Essay

The long inscription contains two lines from Du Fu's Tang poem Nan Lin which complements the depicted figural scene, and can be translated as 'the water in autumn is only four or five feet deep, the boat can merely contain two or three people'. The rest of the inscription can be translated as 'in imitation of the style of Huang Shenzhi, by Wangqi in Zhushan'.

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