CHINESE PAINTINgS, LOTS 217–235

Chinese Paintings

lots 217 – 235

224 217* A Chinese Portrait of an Official, the figure depicted in belted robes decorated with ruyi clouds above a lishui stripe and seated in a dragon throne with inset porcelain plaques and a double dragon head crest rail, framed. Height 33 3/4 x width 21 1/2 inches. $400-600

218* A Chinese Ink and Color Painting, depicting a figure with a wooden staff with pendent double gourd, the figure with a crane rank badge affixed to his robes and shown riding a tiger beneath pine trees, with two attendant figures bearing plates of fruits, framed. Height 19 1/4 x width 16 1/2 inches. $200-400

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219* A Chinese Ancestor Portrait, depicting the wife of a civil official, the square rank badge of white egret rank and affixed to her red robes with colorful embroidery to the ruyi collar and skirt, framed. Height 36 x width 20 inches. $100-200

220* A Chinese Ink and Color Painting on Paper, depicting a tiger in a hilly landscape, signed and bearing two seals to the lower register. Height 38 x width 18 1/2 inches. $300-500 221* Two Chinese Ink Paintings on Silk, each depicting a peasant in a mountainous landscape, signed with two seals, mounted on board and framed. Height 43 3/4 x width 12 7/8 inches. $400-600

222* A Chinese Ink on Paper Painting, depicting a traveling sage on horseback with attendant, journeying through a landscape with a stupa and a mountain in the distance, bearing poetic inscription, framed. Height 41 3/4 x width 12 3/4 inches. $200-400 223* A Set of Three Chinese Paintings on Silk, depicting birds and peonies, each signed and bearing artist’s seal to the lower right, mounted in Lucite frames. Height visible 12 x width 14 inches. $200-400

224* Two Chinese Folk Art Paintings, depicting various figures accompanied by inscriptions, framed. Height visible 7 x width 21 1/2 inches. $100-200

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225* A Chinese Reverse Painting on Glass, depicting a boy and a girl standing on a cloud above a mountainous landscape, each holding attributes. Height 19 1/8 x width 13 5/8 inches. $200-400

226* A Reverse Painting on Glass, depicting a sage holding a handscroll seated in an outdoor setting with a calf, with a wood frame and metal ruyi form mount. Height 13 x width 19 1/2 inches. $200-400

227* Two Chinese Export Paintings on Pith, each depicting scenes from the manufacture of tea, each framed. Height visible 6 1/4 x width 11 3/8 inches. $400-600

228* A Group of Four Chinese Paintings on Pith, comprising three floral studies and an insect composition, each framed. Height of insect study 6 3/4 x width 11 3/4 inches. $400-600

229* A Group of Five Chinese Ink and Color Paintings on Silk, depicting figural scenes, including court figures with Guanyin above them in clouds, warriors, a mountainous heavenly scene, a pagoda and a miracle, each framed. Height visible 16 x width 13 inches. $1,500-2,000 230* A Set of Four Chinese Ink and Color Paintings on Silk, each depicting genre scenes, with personage titles inscribed to the lower left, each framed. Height visible 20 3/8 x width 14 3/8 inches. $1,500-2,000

231* A Chinese Ink and Color Painting on Paper, depicting flowering peonies emerging from the side of a craggy hill and a pair of ducks in the water below, unsigned, mounted in a hardwood frame. Height 49 x width 21 3/4 inches. $600-800

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232* A Chinese Ink and Color Painting on Silk, after Jiang Tingyi, depicting pheasants with colorful plumage amongst flowering peonies emerging from rocks, with quail in the foreground, a calligraphic inscription to the upper left with two seals, an additional large seal to the top center and signed Jiang Tingyi Gonghui, with one seal to the lower right, framed. Height 52 x width 26 3/4 inches. $1,500-2,000

233* A Chinese Ink and Color Painting on Paper, Qian Guangxin (20th Century) depicting the Huang Shan mountains, with towering pine trees and houses in the foreground, a misty cloud cover rolling into the ravine between, with inscription and signed ‘Qian Guangxin, the Huangshan mountains painted from memory, Chicago 1984’ with two seals, an additional seal to the lower right, framed. Height 35 x width 77 1/2 inches. $2,000-4,000

234* A Chinese Ink Painting on Silk, After Zhao Yong (1289-c. 1360), depicting the emperor and members of the imperial family traveling through the countryside, with an elephant, falconer, archers, bannermen and officials, with craggy cliffs, pine trees and other foliage surrounding mountains in the distance, bearing cyclical date mark and signed Wuxing Zhao Yong, bearing two seals, laid to board and framed. Width visible 120 1/2 x height 16 inches. $4,000-6,000

235* A Chinese Painting on Silk of Vanavasa Meditating, Anonymous,

LATe SoNG dYNASTY oR LATeR, depicting the luohan meditating in the hollow of a grotto, with bare trees depicted behind the cave, the monk wearing hoop earrings and florally patterned, hooded robes, his shoes placed outside the cave entrance and facing the mountain pass; laid to board and framed. Height 33 x width 17 inches.

Provenance: Purchased at Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 28 and 29 February 1964, lot 167. original catalogue included. $20,000-40,000

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