Lot 16: Zhou Tang 1806-1876 , 'Bamboo Rocks' and Bamboo hanging scroll, ink on paper

depicting a rock's tall spires in a stand of bamboo, with an inscription which may be translated: Deep in Autumn; cold frosts; the sun wanes. A trace of [the bamboos] green faces the wind; a chilly scene. The idea of painting is to search for form, just as with prose; How many times I turn and look at [this stone] like a jade railing. Lanxi; tuidaoren; Shaobai , bearing three seals: Lanxi, Chen Liu, Ling; together with Wang Yin (circa 1829-after 1892), 'Scholar's Rock', hanging scroll, ink on paper, with an inscription relating an imagined history of the rock, part of which may be translated: ... I own to being addicted to a love of rocks. Every time I see a strange stone, [I feel] vigorous and heroic...When I walk in the barren mountains and deep valleys, my hand senses the twists and turns of the brush and ink... bearing two seals: Wang Yin , the other undeciphered (2) hanging scroll, ink on paper

measurements note the first: 78 by 18 5/8 in., 198.1 by 47.3 cm; the second: 53 1/8 by 20 7/8 in., 135 by 53 cm

Chinese Paintings from the Henricksen Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego, 5th September 2002 - 23rd February 2003, cat. nos 29 and 32, illustrated.

PROPERTY FROM THE HENRICKSEN COLLECTION
According to Dr. Sewall Oertling, Zhou Tang may be considered one of the greatest painters of rocks from the Qing dynasty (op.cit. p. 71). Wang Yin produced a painting manual, Yemei Shipu (Yemei's [Wang Yin] Manual of Rocks), published in Japan in 1880 (ibid. p. 77).