PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE TIEN YIN TANG COLLECTION LOTS 835-851 天隱堂舊藏 拍品835-851
DAI XI (1801-1860)
Bamboo and Rocks, 1847 Horizontal handscroll, ink on silk, inscribed by the artist and dated Daoguang dingwei, signed Chunshi Dai Xi, with two artist's seals, mounted with a titleslip by Wu Changshuo (1844-1927), with a calligrapher's seal, the silk cover with a titleslip by Guo Yimin (1893-1974), and the silk wrap with a titleslip by Chang Pe-chin (Zhang Bojin, 1897-1988) dated renyin (1962). 19 1/4 x 63 1/4in (48.8 x 160.8cm)
Dai Xi's seals Chunshi 醇士 and Dai Xi 戴熙 are recorded in Shanghai Museum ed., Zhongguo Shuhuajia Yinjian Kuanzhi Vol. II 中國書畫家印鑒款識·下, Beijing, 1993, artist no. 1146, seals no. 13 and 26, pp. 1548-9.
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