Lot 384: GAO KEGONG (1248-1310, ATTRIBUTED TO)

MIST OVER THE RIVER IN SPRING

Handscroll, ink and colour on silk
29 x 270.5 cm (11 3/8 x 106 1/2 in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed: Fangshan Gao Kegong
With one seal: Fan Shan Gao Shi
Dated third month, second year of the Huangqing era (1313)
Thirteen collectors' seals, including:
Hua Yun (1488-1560): Hua Shi Bu An, Zi Zi Sun Sun Yong Bao;
Li Hongqiu (1899-1978): Liu Yang Li Hong Qiu Yun Qing Jian Cang;
Xu Xiaopu (1887-1961): Xiao Pu Suo Cang; and
You Ming Fan Yi Shi Jia, Nu [ ]; Bai Ting Zhi Yin; Zhong He; Xue Shan Wen Xin; Zhen Ze Shang Fang; Qian Hu Zhi Yin; Wei Guo Shi Jia; Xuan Wen Ge Jian Shu Hua Bo Shi Yin
Colophons at the end of the scroll by each of:
Cai Jintai (19th-20th century), signed Cai Jintai, with one seal, and dated thirty-fourth year of the Guangxu era (1908); and
Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), signed, with two seals, and dated jihai year (1959)
Frontispiece by Xiaozhai, signed, with one seal, and dated renshen year of the Jingtai era (1452)

Note:
1. Cai Jintai, sobriquet names Yilou and Se'an, lived during the late Qing. He was the Education Minister of Lanzhou during the Guangxu era (1875-1908). Cai was a great connoisseur and collector of his time, and was particularly keen to inscribe and write colophons to important pieces. The landscape, Yougu Tu by Guo Xi in the Shanghai Museum, and the Song Rubbing of Langting in the Palace Museum, Beijing, both carry lengthy inscriptions by Cai.
2. For brief biography of Li Hongqiu, see Zhongguo Jinxiandai Renwu Minghao Dacidian, Zhejiang Guji Chubanshe, 1993, p. 331

Works by Ancient Chinese Painters, National Museum of History, Taiwan, 1977, no. 2

(US$64,500-77,400)