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GU LUO (1762-1837) / LU QIGUANG (CIRCA 1828-1898) / QIAN SHOUTIE (1897-1967)
Spring Outing / Calligraphy / Scholar under the Pine / Aubergine
Four fan leaves, mounted for framing, ink and colour on paper / ink on gold paper / ink and colour on gold-flecked paper

GU LUO (1762-1837)
Spring Outing
Ink and colour on paper
16.1 x 51 cm. (6 38 x 20 18 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist
Dated autumn, gengshen year (1800)
Dedicated to Dan‘ya

LU QIGUANG (around 1828-1898)
Calligraphy in Running Script
Ink on gold paper
17.3 x 53.5 cm. (6 34 x 21 18 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dedicated to Mei’yuan

QIAN SHOUTIE (1897-1967)
Scholar under the Pine
Ink and colour on paper
17.6 x 49.7 cm. (6 78 x 19 58 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist
Dated yihai year (1935)

QIAN SHOUTIE (1897-1967)
Aubergine
Ink and colour on gold-flecked paper
15.1 x 47 cm. (6 x 18 12 in.)
Inscribed and signed, with an illegible seal
Dated sixth month, guisi year (1953)
Dedicated to Zhiying
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Lot Essay

Sun Ah Book Center opened its doors in 1968 and has provided a trading platform for Hong Kong and overseas scholars of literature, history and philosophy for over half a century. In addition to operating two bookstores, the Center organized many large-scale events in the past, including twenty-six antique books auctions, the “1930s Out-of-Print Antique Book Fair”, and the “Shenzhen National College Foreign Edition Literature and History Book Fair”.

With the enthusiastic effort of its founder Tsang Sook Yin and her son Dr So Keng Chit, Sun Ah Book Center is warmly welcomed by the book and manuscript collectors community. The Center sold countless ancient books of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and manuscripts of Shen Congwen, Zhou Zuoren, Albert Einstein, Zhang Ailing, Hu Shi and other celebrities. Its supply sources include Tokyo, Florence, and many North American cities. Over the past few decades, as the owners acquired books and manuscripts from collectors for their business, they, in turn, began to collect paintings and calligraphy to form the collection of Classical and Modern works as we present to you now.

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