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‘PRAYING MANTIS’, BY JU LIAN (1828-1904), DATED 1895
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2022年12月10日 开拍
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‘PRAYING MANTIS’, BY JU LIAN (1828-1904), DATED 1895 居廉款《紫藤和螳螂》,1895年
China. Ink and watercolors on silk. Of circular form, finely painted with a praying mantis perched on a wisteria stem, its slender legs balancing on the leaves, the head raised with alert eyes and long antennas, the finely meshed wings tucked along the body and grasping an insect, the white wisteria flowers above with three bees.

Inscriptions: Center left, dated ‘In the Summer of the year of Yiwei’ (corresponding to 1895) and signed ‘Geshan Laoren Ju Lian’, one seal of the artist, ‘Guquan’.

Provenance: French trade.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, few small stains, and little creasing. Some of the black ink possibly refreshed.

Dimensions: Image size 24.1 cm diameter, Size incl. mounting 41.5 x 36 cm (each)

Mounted and framed behind glass. (2)

Ju Lian (1828-1904), a native of Panyu, now Guangzhou, was a Chinese painter during the later Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was 'Ancient Spring' (Gu Quan), and his self-given pseudonym 'Old Man of the Divided Mountain' (Ge Shan Lao Ren). He was the younger brother of the painter Ju Chao and was known for his plant-and-insect paintings and bird-and-flower paintings.

The praying mantis (tanglang) is an insect that lays large numbers of eggs, and thus symbolizes fertility in Chinese culture. The symbolism is reinforced by the sound of the second character (lang) which is identical to one of the characters for ‘son’.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2015, lot 1262
Price: HKD 300,000 or approx. EUR 43,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: Ju Lian (1828-1904)
Expert remark: Compare the closely related motif, material, and circular form



居廉款《紫藤和螳螂》,1895
中國,絹本設色,圓形扇片。一隻螳螂棲息在紫藤莖上,纖細的腿支撐在葉子上,頭抬起,警惕的眼睛,捕捉了一隻昆蟲,長長的觸角。白色紫藤花盛開,三只蜜蜂正迎花起舞。

款識:奉佳仁兄大人鋻正,乙未夏隔山老人居廉
鈴印:古泉畫印

來源:法國古玩交易市場。
品相:狀況極好,有輕微磨損與小污漬,輕微摺痕。局部黑色水墨可能加深過。

尺寸:畫面直徑24.1 厘米,總41.5 x 36 厘米

鏡框。

螳螂在中國,因為其諧音,寓意著“金玉滿堂(螳)堆長廊(螂)”。

拍賣結果比較:
形制:非常相近
拍賣:香港蘇富比,2015年4月5日,lot 1262
價格:HKD 300,000(相當於今日EUR 43,000
描述:居廉 (1828-1904) 《螳螂捕蟬》
專家評論:比較非常相近的主題、材質和鏡心。

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