Lot 625
  • 625

Dong Qichang 1555-1636

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Description

  • Dong Qichang
  • WANG XIANGQIAN BIOGRAPHY IN REGULAR SCRIPT
  • ink on paper, album of forty leaves
signed Dong Qichang, with two seals of the artist, zong bo xue shi, dong shi xuan zai.
Frontispiece by Xia Tonghe (1868-1925), signed Xia Tonghe, dated dingwei of the Guangxu reign, the first day of the tenth lunar month (Nov. 6, 1907), with one seal, Xia Tonghe. Colophons by Zhang Mu (1805-1849), signed Zhang Mu, with one seal, zhen zhai ju shi; He Shaoji (1799-1873), with one seal, zi zhen; Wei Zhaorong (19th Century), signed Wei Zhaorong, dated renying (1842) of the Daoguang reign, the fourth lunar month, summer, with one seal, chen zhao rong yin; Mao Shutang (19th Century), signed Wuzhi Mao Shutang, with two seals, both illegible; Jing Wen (19th Century), signed Jing Wen, dated renying (1842), winter, with two seals, jing wen, and one other illegible; Zhao Zhenzuo (19th Century), with one seal, zhi fang; Lü Quansun (19th Century) and Zhuang Shouqi (1810-1866), signed Lü Quansun and Zhuang Shouqi, dated renying of the Daiguang reign, one day after the summer solstice (June 22, 1842), with three seals, yao xian yan fu, lü shi pin tian, zhuang shou qi yin; Wang Shoupeng (1875-1929), signed Shoupeng and Peng, with one seal, illegible; Xu Naipu (1787-1866), dated guimao (1843) of the Daoguang reign, the eleventh lunar month, with two seals, chen xu nai pu, dian sheng; Wang lüqian (19th Century) and Li Chaodong (19th Century), signed Wang Lüqian and Long'xi Li Chaodong, dated jiachen (1844), the second lunar month, with three seals, wang lü qian yin, wu xu han lin, xi cun; Duan Fang (1861-1911), signed Duan Fang, with one seal, duan fang si yin; Li Ruiqing (1867-1920), signed Linchuan Li Ruiqing, dated jiyou (1909) of the Xuantong reign, the second leap lunar month, with two seals, lin chuan li shi, mei an zhu ren; Fan Zengxiang (1846-1931), with one seal, fan; Zhao Xi (20th Century), with one seal, xiang song; Li Ye'nong (20th Century), signed Li Ye'nong, dated guichou (1913), the eighth lunar month, with one seal, you zhai ju shi; Zhang Qin (1861-1949), signed Ning'hai Zhang Qin, dated bingchen (1916), the tenth lunar month, winter, with one seal, illegible; Kang Youwei (1858-1957), dated yichou, the seventh day of the first lunar month (Jan. 30, 1925), with one seal, kang you wei yin; with two collector's seals of Robert H. Ellsworth, an si yuan cang, an si yuan zhen cang ji

Literature

Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 1800-1950, New York, 1986, Vol. I, pp. 367-371; Vol. III, pp. 268-281, where the colophons are fully illustrated, transcribed and translated into English.