Lot 213
  • 213

Lan Ying (1585-1666)

Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Lan Ying
  • LANDSCAPE AFTER YUAN MASTERS
  • ink and colour on paper, handscroll
signed DIESOU LAN YING, inscribed, with two seals of the artist, and a total of sixteen collectors' seals, including four of famous collector Wang Jiqian (C.C. Wang, 1907-2003). Annotations on the wood box by C.C. Wang and two other collectors

Literature

ILLUSTRATED
The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period, written by James Cahill, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1971, pp. 134, 141

Condition

- In good condition. - Colours of the actual piece are slightly more intense than that of the illustrated. - A few minor paper restoration could be found with close examination, while the composition itself remains intact.
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