Name: HUA YUAN (1898-1957), GE ZUN (1821-1908) AND VARIOUS ARTISTS
Brand: Flower and Insects, Figures, Landscape, and Calligraphy
Price: 70000.00 HKD
Availability: SoldOut

HUA YUAN (1898-1957), GE ZUN (1821-1908) AND VARIOUS ARTISTS
Flower and Insects, Figures, Landscape, and Calligraphy
Four folding fans, ink and colour on paper / ink on paper / ink on gold paper

HUA YUAN (1898-1957) / JIN YOUSHOU (20TH CENTURY)
Insects under Moonlight / Calligraphy in Seal Script
Ink and colour on paper / ink on paper
18.5 x 45.5 cm. (7 ¹⁄₄ x 17 ⁷⁄₈ in.)
Insects under Moonlight inscribed and signed by Hua Yuan, with one seal
Dated summer, xinmao year (1951)
Dedicated to Xu Lian
Calligraphy in Seal Script on the reverse inscribed and signed by Jin Youshou, with three seals
Dated spring, bingxu year (1946)
NOTE: Fan rib carved by Tang Zhenwu, dedicated to Xu Lian.

GE ZUN (1821-1908) / ZHOU YAO (19TH CENTURY)
Peach Blossoms Spring / Calligraphy in Running Script
Ink and colour on paper / ink on gold paper
18 x 44 cm. (7 ¹⁄₈ x 17 ³⁄₈ in.)
Peach Blossoms Spring entitled, inscribed and signed by Ge Zun, with one seal
Dated summer, renwu year (1882)
Calligraphy in Running Script inscribed and signed by Zhou Yao, with one seal
Both sides dedicated to Shucheng
NOTE: Fan rib carved Yitang Baoji

WANG MENGXIONG (19-20TH CENTURY) / LAN YUNPING (1875-?)
Bringing Qin to Visit a Friend / Calligraphy in Running Script
Ink and colour on paper / ink on paper
19.5 x 47 cm. (7 ⁵⁄₈ x 18 ¹⁄₂ in.)
Bringing Qin to Visit a Friend entitled, inscribed and signed by Wang Mengxiong, with one seal
Dated guiyou year (1873)
Calligraphy in Running Script inscribed and signed by Lan Yunping, with two seals
Both sides dedicated to Qingyuan
NOTE: Fan rib carved by Zi’an

FANG HONGXUN (1894-1941) / PENG XIUHUA (19-20TH CENTURY)
Composing Music / Calligraphy in Running Script
Ink and colour on paper / ink on paper
19.5 x 52 cm. (7 ⁵⁄₈ x 20 ¹⁄₂ in.)
Composing Music entitled, inscribed and signed by Fang Hongxun, with two seals of the artist
Dated summer, jiazi year (1924)
Calligraphy in Running Script inscribed and signed by Peng Xiuhua
Both sides dedicated to Kuiqi

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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.