Lot 2878
  • 2878

Zhou Tianqiu 1514 - 1595

Estimate
800,000 - 1,000,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Zhou Tianqiu
  • Biographical Sketch of Chen Zhongjian and His Wife in Regular Script
  • ink on paper, handscroll
signed Zhou Tianqiu, with three seals of the artist and eleven collectors' seals in total
Titleslip by Si Bu Jushi, dated Guangxu guiwei(1883) and with one illegible seal
Colophon by Su Dunyuan, dated Daoguang period, gengzi (1840) and with one seal of his 

Condition

- Paper bears slightly darken tone at the beginning - Minor paper loss, mainly at the edges - A few characters were retouched - The scroll should be in less reddish color comparing to the catalogue image
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