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Lot 84
Sale 5887 - Asian Arts
Apr 8, 2021
6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$15,000 -
25,000
Price Realized
$56,700
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Lot Description
Attributed to the Empress Dowager of China, Cixi (1835-1908)
JIUTIAN CHUILU (GRAPES)
A gift from the Empress Dowager to Congressman and Mrs. Edwin H. Conger
Ink on silk, mounted as a hanging scroll, titled and inscribed "Guangxu Xinchou Ji Dong Zhong Huan Yu Bi" ("Guangxu, Xinchou Year [equivalent to 1901-1902], Late Winter, Mid-Month; Imperial Brush") upper right and with four seals, inscribed again lower left with a poem signed Lu Runxiang, and with one seal; later Japanese style mounts, later wood box, accompanied by Sarah Pike Conger "Letters from China", Chicago, 1909 (2).