Lot 76
  • 76

WEN ZHENGMING (1470-1559) LANDSCAPE

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

ink on paper, hanging scroll



Signed Wen Zhengming, dated the first year of the Jiajing era, 1522, inscribed with text detailing circumstances of the painting's creation and connection to Cai Duanming's writings on tea, three seals of the artist, and five collectors' seals 

Literature

Cheng Te-K'un, Painting as a Recreation in China, some Hsi-pi Paintings in the Mu-fei Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, no.1

Condition

- Overall fair condition for age. - Light horizontal and vertical creasing and cracking with associated retouching. - Wear to edges.
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