£375
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 578
Auction: 6 November 2019 at 12:00 GMT
夏燕孫畫 風塵三俠紫檀扇
ink and colour on paper, painted with a Tang dynasty legend titled 'Fong Chen San Xia', a story revolving around two heroes and a heroine, the painting depicting a bearded man with a donkey waiting outside a fenced house for a young man and a woman, the inscription reading 'The Year of Jia Shen (1944), written by Xia Yensun' together with two red seals, the zitan guards carved in low relief with two dragons chasing a flaming pearl