• Important Chinese Art from the auction at Christies

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    Important Chinese Art from the Fujita Museum

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    15 March 2017

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    Lot 507

    CHEN RONG (13TH CENTURY) AS CATALOGUED IN SHIQU BAOJI

    Six Dragons

    Price realised

    USD 48,967,500

    Estimate

    USD 1,200,000 - USD 1,800,000

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    CHEN RONG (13TH CENTURY) AS CATALOGUED IN SHIQU BAOJI
    Six Dragons
    Handscroll, ink on paper
    Painting: 13 ½ x 173 3/8 in. (34.3 x 440.4 cm.)
    Calligraphy: 13 7/8 x 32 5/8 in. (35.1 x 82.8 cm.)
    Inscribed, with one seal of the artist
    Colophon by Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799), with two seals
    Dated mid-spring, wuxu year (1778)
    Colophons by Yu Minzhong (1714-1779), with two seals; Liang Guozhi
    (1722-1786), with two seals; Wang Jie (1725-1805), with two seals; Dong Gao
    (1740-1818), with two seals; Jin Shisong (1730-1800), with two seals; and
    Chen Xiaoyong (1715-1779), with two seals
    Thirty-four collectors’ seals including fourteen of Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799),
    one of Emperor Jiaqing (1760-1820), nine of Zhuang Husun (17th century),
    two of Prince Yixin (1832-1898)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Emperor Gaozong, Shiqu Baoji Xubian, 1793, Facsimile reprint, Taipei,
    National Palace Museum, 1971, p. 1932.
    Suzuki Kei, Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: Japanese
    Museums, University of Tokyo Press, 1983, vol. 3, JM14-0023.


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