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Wang Guxiang 1501-1568 โ€” Wang Guxiang, Album of Flowers on fan leaves

Wang Guxiang 1501-1568

Wang Guxiang, Album of Flowers on fan leaves

Wang Guxiang's Album of Flowers on fan leaves is a ten leaf album executed in ink and colour on richly textured gold paper, exemplifying the refined literati painting tradition of the Ming Dynasty. Created by the artist between 1501 and 1568, the work demonstrates the characteristic delicacy and technical mastery of flower painting during this period, with each leaf presenting carefully composed botanical subjects rendered in the scholar painter's distinctive style. The use of gold paper as a ground provides an elegant, luminous surface that enhances the vibrant pigmentation and creates an intimate, precious quality appropriate to the album's intimate fan leaf format.

Medium
ink and colour on gold paper, album of ten leaves

๐Ÿ”จ Auction Lot

Power & Culture โ€“ Heirlooms from the Poon Family Collection

October 16, 2024

Estimate: $1,000,000 โ€“ $2,000,000

Lot 817

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Wang Guxiang 1501-1568, Wang Guxiang, Album of Flowers on fan leaves

Wang Guxiang's Album of Flowers on fan leaves is a ten leaf album executed in ink and colour on richly textured gold paper, exemplifying the refined literati painting tradition of the Ming Dynasty. Created by the artist between 1501 and 1568, the work demonstrates the characteristic delicacy and technical mastery of flower painting during this period, with each leaf presenting carefully composed botanical subjects rendered in the scholar painter's distinctive style. The use of gold paper as a ground provides an elegant, luminous surface that enhances the vibrant pigmentation and creates an intimate, precious quality appropriate to the album's intimate fan leaf format.

Medium
ink and colour on gold paper, album of ten leaves
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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

fan leaf format, Scholarly aesthetic, delicate florals, Chinese Artist, Botanical Illustration, Ming Dynasty, Ink and Color on Paper, Nature Study, 16th Century, Literati Painting

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