A FAMILLE-ROSE FIGURAL PLAQUE BY WANG QI (1884-1937) DATED TO THE XINWEI YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1931

depicting the moment when the poet Su Dongpo offers to instruct the courtesan Qin Cao in Buddhist philosophy and she kneels to give her thanks, inscribed with a poem referencing the scene, dated autumn of the xinwei year and signed Wang Qi with two seals reading Xichang Wang Qi and Tao mi

Acquired prior to 1982.

In good condition with some minor speckling to the enamels particularly to the lower section. This has not been examined outside of frame.
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