Duke's Auctions - 'A Scholar's Studio' 6th December 2012

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785 AN INDO-PERSIAN COURT SCENE, the central dignitary seated in a howdah and surrounded by various attendants in a garden setting, watercolour and bodycolour on silk, early 20th century, 32” x 40”. See illustration

787 CHINESE SCHOOL, 20th century An extensive mountain landscape with pagodas, with inscription and seal mark upper right, watercolour and bodycolour on silk, 44” x 24½”

Provenance: Private collection, East Dorset.

£200-400

788 AFTER ZHAO MENGFU (1254-1322) ‘Horses and their attendants on the bank of a river’, signed lower right ‘Zi’ang’, probably Ming, the reverse of the frame with an old exhibition label. 59" x 23" See illustration

£500-1000

786 A THREE-FOLD SCREEN, each section mounted with silk paintings of female figures in landscape settings, watercolour and bodycolour, late Qing/early Republic, 36” high overall

The artist Zhao Mengfu is know to have signed some works ‘Zi’ang’.

Provenance: Private collection, Dorset.

£200-400

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£1,000-2,000


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