An Exquisite and Signed Porcelain Painting Panel

08 September, 2018 | 10:00 AM PST

Lot-372

Lot: 372


An Exquisite and Signed Porcelain Painting Panel

The collophon and signature indicates that it is painted by Liu Yu Chen during the year 1927.  Liu (1904-1969) came to the porcelain capitol ZhinDe Zhanto practice porcelain painting in 1922.  He is one of the eight friends of Zhu hill; these ar the most accomplished porcelain painters of the Republic Period.  He specializes in painting flowers and birds.  The poem (collophone) describes that (lake/river) water rises and covers ten miles; the reed flower shows among tall and short trees.

Size: 18 in. (45.7 cm.) h x 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) w

Provenance: From an important California collector, whose grandfather was a major antique dealer during late Qing Dynasty and early Republic, and was a patron of painters Wu Changshuo and Huang Binhong

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