Lot 17
YUN BING (CHINESE, ACTIVE LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
CHINESE INK PAINTING OF CARP
Auction: Brushes Across Empire | Wed 11th March from 10am | Lots 1 to 179
Description
惲冰 《游魚戲藻圖》 水墨設淡色紙本 立軸
款識：游魚戲藻圖，倣南田老人筆意。蘭陵女史惲冰
鈐印：惲冰之印、天供?閒日月
ink and slight colour on paper, painted in the manner of Yun Shouping (1633-1690), signed and two seals of the artist, hanging scroll
Dimensions
76.5cm x 40cm
Provenance
Acquired by Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937) September 1910, for HK $40 (Sir James Stewart Lockhart, Notebook, dated 1910-1921, p. 364, NLS Acc. 12695/26c);
Gifted to his daughter, Mary Stewart Lockhart (1894-1985);
Presented by the above to George Watson’s College, Edinburgh in 1967;
Lent to the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh (2003-2025).
Exhibition:
London, Betty Joel Gallery, Chinese Paintings from the Collection of Sir James Stewart Lockhart, 18 June-18 July 1927, catalogue no. 39;
Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Art Centre [Talbot Rice Gallery], Chinese Paintings, 15 March-14 April 1971, catalogue no. 30.
Footnote
Born in Changzhou (Jiangsu Province), Yun Bing was a descendant of Yun Shouping (1633–1690), a renowned Qing Dynasty flower painter and one of the ‘Six Masters’ along with the Four Wangs and Wu Li (ca. 1632–1718). Her alias, Nan Lan Ling Nu Shi, literally means ‘intellectual woman of South Lanling’. Like her relative, Yun Shouping, Yun Bing was a remarkably sensitive observer of nature and painted not only flowers but also insects and birds in their natural habitat. Compare to two flower studies by Yun Bing, in the Metropolitan Museum, object number. 1983.412.1 and 1983.412.2
Sold to Benefit George Watson's College, Edinburgh
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