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DAI QUHENG (1755-1811), MIAN KAI (1795-1838)

Lot 851
01.06.2023 02:30UTC +00:00
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HKD 630 000
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Lot 851 | DAI QUHENG (1755-1811), MIAN KAI (1795-1838)
Estimate value
HKD 260 000 – 360 000
DAI QUHENG (1755-1811), MIAN KAI (1795-1838)
Landscapes
Album of eight leaves, ink and colour on paper
Each leaf measures 17.2 x 33.7 cm. (6 ¾x 13 ¼ in.)
Last leaf signed by Dai Quheng, with two seals of the artist
Each leaf entitled, inscribed and last leaf signed by Mian Kai, with two seals of the artist
Two collector’s seals of Emperor Jiaqing (r. 1760-1820)



Provenance

Lot 161, Fine Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, 4 June 1993, Christie’s New York.

Lot 594, The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Paintings, 14 September 2016, Sotheby’s New York.



Literature

Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1994, pp. 114-119, cat. 35.

Le Parfum de l’encre: Peintures Chinoises de la Collection Roy et Marilyn Papp, Musée Cernuschi, 1999, pp. 130-135, cat. 37.

Claudia Brown, Painting and the Qing Court: Scholar-Artists, 1736-1850, in Judith Smith ed., Tradition and Transformation: Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-tsing Li, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 2005, p. 313, fig. 4.

Claudia Brown, Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2014, p. 95, fig. 3.24.



Exhibited

Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 2 September - 9 October 1994; The Chrysler Museum, Virginia, 13 November 1994 – 8 January 1995; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, 9 September - 11November 1995; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 15 December 1995 – 18 February 1996; China Institute, New York, 4 February – 10 June 1998.

Le Parfum de l’encre: Peintures Chinoises de la Collection Roy et Marilyn Papp, Musée Cernuschi, 23 September – 30 December 1999.

Lyrical Traditions: Four Centuries of Chinese Paintings from the Papp Collection, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 22 June – 7 October 2007.
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