LATE QING DYNASTY

Jin Gao (active 1862–1908), courtesy name Pinqing 品卿, sobriquets Hanfeng Shanren 寒峰山人 (“Mountain Recluse of Cold Peaks”) and Yishan Qiaozi 黟山樵子 (“Woodcutter of Mount Yi”), was a native of Yixian, Anhui province. Accomplished in both landscape and bird-and-flower painting, Jin was, alongside Cheng Men and Wang Shaowei, one of the leading figures of the literati school of qianjiang palette porcelain painting. During the Tongzhi and Guangxu reigns, he served at the Qing imperial kilns, where he and Wang Shaowei were known as the “Two Brushes of the Imperial Kilns.” Together with Cheng Men and Wang, he was celebrated as one of the “Three Masters of Qianjiang Porcelain Painting.” A table screen depicting deer and cranes and signed by Jin Gao was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 19 October 2021, lot 23.