Live Auction 22021Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy
CHENG LIN (18TH CENTURY)
Lot 897 FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION

CHENG LIN (18TH CENTURY)

Lotus and Butterflies

Closed2 December 2023

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HKD 252,000

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CHENG LIN (18TH CENTURY)
Lotus and Butterflies
Handscroll, ink and colour on paper
29.2 x 425 cm. (11 1⁄2 x 167 1⁄4 in.)
Signed, with two seals of the artist
Two collector’s seals
Colophon by Zhao Fan (1851-1927), signed with three seals
Frontispiece by Rao Zongyi (1917-2018), dated summer, bingwu year (1966), signed with one seal

Collection of Professor Zheng Dekun (1907-2001).
Lot 19, 7 November 2007, The Mu-Fei Collection of Chinese Paintings, Sotheby’s London.