Lot 15: WEN SHU (1595-1634) Flowers and Butterflies Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on paper 34 x 17 in. (86.4 x 43.2 cm.)

Name: WEN SHU (1595-1634) Flowers and Butterflies Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on paper 34 x 17 in. (86.4 x 43.2 cm.)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: f354c66850

Est: $50,000 USD - $100,000 USD

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMarch 19, 2019

Item Overview

Description

WEN SHU (1595-1634)
Flowers and Butterflies
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Eight collectors’ seals, including three of Emperor Qianlong (1711- 1799), one of Zhang Ruo’ai (1713-1746), one of Zhang Keyuan (late Qing dynasty), and one of Ceng Yu (1759-1830)
Dated summer, renshen year (1632)
Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on paper
34 x 17 in. (86.4 x 43.2 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Wen Shu

Provenance

Acquired in Japan in the mid-1940s and thence by descent.

Auction Details

Fine Chinese Paintings

Christie's

March 19, 2019, 10:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, NY 10020, US

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