Lot 754: NI ZAN, ATTRIBUTED TO 1301-1374

FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 746-757)
THE QUIET STUDIO
signed Zan. With twenty-nine collectors' seals, including one of An Guo (16υth century), da ming xi shan an guo zhen cang; two of Bian Yongyu (1645-1702), shi gu tang shu hua, xian ke; five of Kong Guangtao (19υth century), kong shi jian ding, kong, shan tang han mo, yue xue lou jian cang song yuan shu hua zhen ji yin, zhi sheng qi shi shi sun guang tao yin; one of Wu Yuanhui (19υth century), nan hai wu shi nan xue zhai mi ji yin; eight of Pang Yuanji (ca.1865-1949), xu zhai jian cang, lai chen xin shang, xu zhai mo yuan, lai chen shen cang zhen ji, xu zhai zhi jing zhi pin, xu zhai shen ding, pang lai chen zhen cang song yuan zhen ji, pang lai chen zhen shang yin

Attached colophons by Wu Yi and Huang Yun. Colophon on the mounting by Qian Qianyi (1582-1664). Titleslip by Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), dated 1923, indicating that the scroll was in the collection of Kong Guangtao at that time.
ink on paper, handscroll
27.8 by 120.6 cm. 11 by 47 1/2 in.

Bian Yongyu, Shigutang shuhua huikao (1682), juan 20;
Kong Guangtao, Yuexuelou shuhua lu (1861), juan 3/26;
Pang Yuanji, Xuzhai minghua lu (1909), juan 1/41

Sotheby's New York, Fine Chinese Paintings, June 1, 1988, lot 9