CHEN ZHONGREN (ATTRIBUTED TO, 13TH-14TH CENTURY)
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CHEN ZHONGREN (ATTRIBUTED TO, 13TH-14TH CENTURY)

Birds and Flowers

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CHEN ZHONGREN (ATTRIBUTED TO, 13TH-14TH CENTURY)
Birds and Flowers
A set of four scrolls, mounted and framed, ink and colour on silk
Each painting measures 137.5 x 64 cm. (54 1/8 x 25 ¼ in.)
(4)Signed and dated spring, third month, jihai year of the Dade period (1299), with one seal
Fifteen collector’s seals: five of Wang Wenbo (1662-1722) and ten of Pan Zhengwei (1791-1850)
Literature
S. M. Siu, Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings, Chao Tong Xiao Shi Liuhua Guan, Hong Kong, March 1966, pl.57-60.
Exhibited
Hong Kong, Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library of Hong Kong University, Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings.

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Lot Essay

Note:
This lot is accompanied by a copy of Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings.
Chen Zhongren, a native of Jiangyou (now Jiangxi), was the younger brother of Chen Lin. Exceling in landscapes, figures and bird and flower paintings, Chen was the President of Anding College of Huzhou and engaged in artistic exchanges with Zhao Mengfu. His bird and flower paintings were praised by Zhao as being even better than those of Huang Quan of the Five Dynasties.
Birds and Flowers was exhibited twice before the war in Hong Kong at Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library of Hong Kong University and documented in the Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings by S. M. Siu.

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