In the Studio: Asian Art Featuring Works from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

In the Studio: Asian Art Featuring Works from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

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Important Chinese Art from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

Wang Shishen

Plum Blossoms, ink and color on paper, hanging scroll | 汪士慎 梅花 設色紙本 立軸

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September 28, 02:36 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Wang Shishen (1686 - 1759)

Plum Blossoms, ink and color on paper, hanging scroll

汪士慎 梅花 設色紙本 立軸


signed Chaolin shutang Shishen xie, inscribed, and with three seals of the artist, jin ren, shi shen, xi dong wai shi

釋文：漢宮煖玉最承恩，紈扇休臨凉雪痕，麼鳳蹋翻蘇小夢，迴風舞起洛妃魂。湘江日浸春冰薄，雲母屏開夜氣溫，惱亂西家護華犬，美人攜燭自開門。

款識：巢林書堂士慎寫。鈐印：近人、士慎、谿東外史


Height 44¾ in., 113.8 cm; Width 13¼ in., 33.5 cm

Sumitomo Collection, Oiso.
Collection of Uji Eda, Tokyo.
Collection of James Cahill (1926-2014).
Kaikodo Asian Arts, New York, 1997.
Kohansha Shina Meiga Senshu [A Selection of Chinese Paintings from the Kohansha], Kyoto, 1926, vol. III, pl. 47.
Oswald Siren, Chinese Painting, New York, 1956, vol. 7, p. 437.
Bunjinga Suihen [Collection of the Finest Chinese and Japanese Literati Paintings], Tokyo, 1976, vol. IX, pl. 68.
Suzuki Kei, Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, Tokyo, 1982, p. 337.
Kaikodo Journal,  New York, 1997, cat. no. 24.
Among Flora and Fauna, Kaikodo Asian Arts, New York, 1997, cat. no. 24.