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Auction archive: Lot number 134

A rare Chinese Tang style portrait on paper of Madame Tsouei

Asian Art
22 May 2007
Estimate
£3,000 - £4,000
ca. US$5,949 - US$7,932
Price realised:
£6,200
ca. US$12,294
Auction archive: Lot number 134

A rare Chinese Tang style portrait on paper of Madame Tsouei

Asian Art
22 May 2007
Estimate
£3,000 - £4,000
ca. US$5,949 - US$7,932
Price realised:
£6,200
ca. US$12,294
Beschreibung:

A rare Chinese Tang style portrait on paper of Madame Tsouei, by Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), beneath two inscriptions, 71.5cm x 24cm. Provenance: Ex Collection de Madame Langweil, Hotel Drouet, 5th June 1959, Lot 237. The upper inscription is taken from a letter in which mistress Tsouei wrote to Tchang Chen, followed by a verse by the poet Yang Kin Yen inspired by mistress Tsouei. This inscription purports to be by the famous painted Tschao-Meng of the Yuan Dynasty and is dated the 8th day of the 4th month in the 2nd year of Tesha-Ta (1309). This painting was authenticated by the late Professor Wai Kam Ho, as known work by Zhang Daqian who noted that it was sold at the same time as the Han Gan horse and groom was acquired by the French Government for the Muse Cernuschi, Paris. Other forgeries by Zhang Daqian are in the British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC, National Palace Museum, TaiPei, amongst others. A complete list is in the Freer catalogue "Challenging th Past" by Shen Fu, 1991.

Auction archive: Lot number 134
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2007
Auction house:
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Ltd
Castle Street 51-61
Salisbury Wiltshire, SP1 3SU
United Kingdom
enquiries@woolleyandwallis.co.uk
+44 (0)1722 424500
+44 (0)1722 424508
Beschreibung:

A rare Chinese Tang style portrait on paper of Madame Tsouei, by Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), beneath two inscriptions, 71.5cm x 24cm. Provenance: Ex Collection de Madame Langweil, Hotel Drouet, 5th June 1959, Lot 237. The upper inscription is taken from a letter in which mistress Tsouei wrote to Tchang Chen, followed by a verse by the poet Yang Kin Yen inspired by mistress Tsouei. This inscription purports to be by the famous painted Tschao-Meng of the Yuan Dynasty and is dated the 8th day of the 4th month in the 2nd year of Tesha-Ta (1309). This painting was authenticated by the late Professor Wai Kam Ho, as known work by Zhang Daqian who noted that it was sold at the same time as the Han Gan horse and groom was acquired by the French Government for the Muse Cernuschi, Paris. Other forgeries by Zhang Daqian are in the British Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC, National Palace Museum, TaiPei, amongst others. A complete list is in the Freer catalogue "Challenging th Past" by Shen Fu, 1991.

Auction archive: Lot number 134
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2007
Auction house:
Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms Ltd
Castle Street 51-61
Salisbury Wiltshire, SP1 3SU
United Kingdom
enquiries@woolleyandwallis.co.uk
+44 (0)1722 424500
+44 (0)1722 424508
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