A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE 'FIGURAL' PLAQUES BY WANG QI, REPUBLIC PERIOD, DATED JISI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1929

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September 23, 08:35 PM GMT

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80,000 - 120,000 USD

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE-ROSE 'FIGURAL' PLAQUES BY WANG QI

REPUBLIC PERIOD, DATED JISI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1929

民國己巳年（1929年）王琦作粉彩觀雁圖及牧牛圖瓷板一對

each rectangular panel finely enameled, the first painted with a winter landscape scene, depicting a scholar riding on an caparisoned horse and gazing upward at overhanging withered branches, with snow covered mountains and a flock of flying geese in the distance, accompanied by a poetic verse followed by a signed and dated inscription and two artist seals reading Xichang Wang Qi and Taomi, the second depicting an elder wearing a straw hat walking on a grassy meadow beside a young boy riding a buffalo, the animal turning its head slightly toward its calf nestling closely behind, all within a spring landscape with trees sprouting new leaves and blossoms, accompanied by a poem followed by a signed and dated inscription and two artist seals, wood frames (2)

觀雁圖瓷板題識：

天際一行雁雪中立馬看

時在己巳年季夏之下澣西昌匋迷道人王琦寫於珠山客次

印文：

西昌王琦匋迷

牧牛圖瓷板題識：

飽耕飢放事年年放去收來任自然

莫訝牧童無所識至今牛背是堯天

龍集己巳年季夏月下澣橅黃癭瓢之筆意西昌匋迷道王琦寫於珠山客次

印文：

西昌王琦匋迷

Height 31⅛ in., 79 cm; Width 8¼ in., 21 cm

Collection of Dr. Jules Leaf (1905-1999), acquired in Asia in the early 1960s, and thence by descent.

來源

Jules Leaf 醫生 (1905-1999) 收藏，1960年代初得於亞洲，此後家族傳承

This pair of panels are an example of Wang Qi’s mature style, which he developed upon a trip to Shanghai in 1916, where he saw an exhibition of works by a group of painters called Yangzhou Baguai (the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou). Wang was so impressed by the paintings of Huang Shen, one of the Eight Eccentrics, that he started to emulate his style. See a set of four panels by Wang Qi, with a cyclical date corresponding to 1930, from the collection of Phynea Paroulakis, sold in these rooms, 17th-18th March 2015, lot 295; and another with luohan, dated in accordance to 1932, included in the exhibition Brush and Clay. Chinese Porcelain of the Early 20th Century, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1990, cat. no. 29, together with a smaller plaque painted with a lady on a raft, dated to 1927, cat. no. 24.