Lot 416: ANONYMOUS (12TH-14TH CENTURY, PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO HUANG QUAN, ?-965)

RABBITS, FLOWERS AND BIRDS Handscroll, ink and colour on silk 40 x 315 cm. (15 3/4 x 124 in.) Seven collectors' seals, including: Deng Wenyuan (1258-1328): Ba Xi Deng Shi Shan Zhi; Wu Zhen (1280-1354): Mei Hua An; Qiao Kuicheng (13th-14th century): Qiao Shi Kui Cheng; and Wei Fu Zhi Yin, Yu Gu Zhai Zhu Shi Ou Cang (twice), Lu Shi Ji Dao Colophon by Ko Nagao (19th-20th century Japanese collector), attributing this scroll to Huang Quan, signed with one seal With a fitted hard wood box, lid inscised with a titleslip by Ding Wenwei (1827-1890) LITERATURE Fujii Zensuke, Yurin Taikan (The Yurinkan Collection), Yurinkan, Japan 1942, Yu Part Gumeishu Daguan, Japan, Vol. 2 [Kumiko to translate] NOTES (US$38,700-51,600) Note: 1. For brief biography of Deng Wenyuan, see Zhongguo Meishujia Renming Cidan, Shanghai Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 1981, p.1378 2. For brief biography of Qiao Kuicheng, see Zhongguo Lidai Renming Dacidian, Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1999, p.579.