LENG MEI (17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

Listening to Music by the Qin

Details

LENG MEI (17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
Listening to Music by the Qin
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper
101 x 45 cm. (39 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated autumn, eighth month, gengchen year of the Kangxi era (1700)

Provenance

PROPERTY OF CHEN RENTAO - CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM
THE KING KWEI COLLECTION

Lot Essay

Mr Chen Rentao (Chen Jen Dao, 1906-1968) was a veteran collector of Chinese art, paintings and coins. The collection King Kwei Studio was named after he acquired the treasured antique coin, King Kwei Zhi Wan. Mr Chen also edited Essays on Chinese Antiquities which was published in 1952. Part of his collection was exhibited in the first Hong Kong Festival of the Arts in 1955.

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