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QIU YING (1494-1552)
Scholar and Pine Trees Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, signed Shizhou Qiu Ying, with two artist's seals and four collector's seals, the outer titleslip inscribed by Harold Witter Bynner (1881-1968). 38 3/16 x 15 5/8in (97 x 39.7cm)
Provenance: Collection of Jinfeng Shanren (16th century) Collection of Harold Witter Bynner (1881-1968), no. 148
仇英（1494-1552） 松山高士 設色絹本 立軸
款識：十洲仇英製
鈐印：仇英實父、仇英之印
鑒藏印：含藻、醉春堂圖書印、眉氏家藏、錦堂珍玩
題簽：The Poet on the Mountain by Chou Shih-Chou, #148, Witter Bynner Collection (仇十洲詩人登山圖，編號148，賓納珍藏)
The Qiu Ying Shifu 仇英實父 seal on the present lot is the same as the one on Narcissi and Chimonanthus 水仙臘梅, dated 1547, from the collection of the National Palace Museum (accession no. guhua 00219100000), and the other seal Qiu Ying zhi yin 仇英之印, is recorded in Shanghai Museum ed., Zhongguo Shuhuajia Yinjian Kuanzhi Vol. I 中國書畫家印鑒款識·上, Beijing, 1993, seal no. 13, p. 144.
The collector's seal hanzao 含藻 appears on several Qiu Ying paintings in museum collections, consistently placed along the right edge of the painting, or in the lower right corner of a hanging scroll. Notable examples include the hanging scroll Thatched Cottage in the Peach Blossom Village 桃村草堂圖 from the collection of the Beijing Palace Museum, the style of which is also comparable to that of the present lot; the handscroll The Red Cliff 赤壁圖 from the collection of the Liaoning Provincial Museum; the hanging scroll Harp Player in a Pavilion 彈箜篌圖軸 from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession no. 12.887); and the hanging scroll Landscape of .Jiange 劍閣圖 from the collection of the Shanghai Museum.
The identity of the owner of the hanzao seal is not recorded. However, the handscroll Beauty Lost in Thoughts of Spring 美人春思圖 from the collection of the National Palace Museum (accession no. guhua 00103900000) bears a colophon with the same hanzao seal, written by an individual with the sobriquet "Jinfeng Shanren 錦峰山人." This colophon is flanked by one written by Wen Jia 文嘉 (1501-1583) and another by Jin Yuanbin 金元賓, a contemporary of Gu Lin 顧璘 (1476-1545) and Cai Yu 蔡羽 (?-1541). Since all three colophons were written on the same piece of paper, it is reasonable to infer that Jinfeng Shanren was active in the early 16th century and a contemporary of Qiu Ying. The National Palace Museum has suggested that Jinfeng Shanren refers to the early Ming politician Zhang Zhu 張柷(1401-1476), but this attribution is unconvincing, as his dates significantly predate Qiu Ying's lifetime.
Witter Bynner was a well published author, essayist, translator and playwright who authored 20 volumes of poetry, most published by Alfred Knopf. Born in New York, Bynner travelled to Japan, Korea and China in 1917. A year later, while at the University of California at Berkeley, he began an eleven-year collaboration with Jiang Kanghu (江亢虎, 1883-1954) to translate Tang dynasty poetry for an English reading audience. In 1903, they published The Jade Mountain. A Chinese Anthology Being 300 Poems from the Tang dynasty 618-906, and the book has been reissued numerous times under several imprints in the decades that have followed.
Bynner acquired his Chinese painting collection during his two trips to China in 1917 and 1920-1921. In a forward to a 1955 exhibition of his Chinese paintings in Scottsdale, Arizona, the poet notes that his Chinese painting purchases were facilitated through connections provided by Jiang Kanghu. His collection was originally donated to the Roswell Museum in New Mexico.
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