Lot 562
  • 562

Cai Han 1647-1686

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Cai Han
  • OLD PINE TREE
  • ink on paper, fan leaf mounted as hanging scroll
with two seals of the artist, zhong lang you nü, zi yue nü luo
Inscription on painting by Mao Xiang (1611-1693), signed Chaomin di Xiang, with three seals, shui hui an, chao min mao xiang yin, pi jiang

Provenance

Christie's New York, Fine Chinese Paintings, March 18, 1997, lot 75

Exhibited

1. Journeys on Paper and Silk: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, February 28-April 19, 1998
2. Lyrical Traditions: Four Centuries of Chinese Paintings from the Papp Collection, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, June 22-October 7, 2007
3. Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese Painting: Selection from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, April 27-September 2, 2013

Literature

1. Illustrated Catalogue of Selected Works of Ancient Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, vol. 12, Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House, 1986, fig. Hu 7-0352, p. 74
2. Journeys on Paper and Silk: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, 1998, cat. 25, p. 79
3. Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese Painting: Selections from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 2013, cat. 6, pp. 16, 44 and 86
4. Claudia Brown, Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911, University of Washington Press, 2014, fig. 5.2, p. 131

Condition

- Overall in good condition except minor dirt and folding marks from previous mounting.
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Catalogue Note

Mao Xiang's inscription:
Above soar a thousand feet of dragon scales, below grows China root of millennium.
- Journeys on Paper and Silk, p. 79