XIAO HUIRONG (b. 1946)
拍品 3163 LOTS 3150-3153
PROPERTY FROM THE PROFESSOR FREDERICK SEgUIER DRAKE FAMILY COLLECTION

Professor Frederick Seguier Drake (1892-1976) was born in Shandong, China. From a distinguished English family, Drake was ordained minister as a young man and devoted himself to missionary work. Professor Drake was a traveller, and a scholar in Chinese and Divinity; as an archaeologist he travelled extensively within China and was Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at Qiliu (Cheeloo) University in Ji'nan, Shandong. After a brief return to his native England during the Chinese Civil War, Prof. Drake came to Hong Kong as Chair of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong and occupied the position for twelve years. Prof. Drake was widely respected by his students and within the academia. His most notable achievement included leading the archaeological excavation of the Lei Cheng UK Eastern Han Tomb in Hong Kong in the 1950s. Zhao Shao'ang gifted Prof. Drake with Birds and Flowers (Lot 3150) to celebrate his 72nd birthday and his retirement.

XIAO HUIRONG (b. 1946)

Plum Blossoms

已结束2012年5月29日

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XIAO HUIRONG (b. 1946)
Plum Blossoms
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with fourteen seals of the artis
Dated xinmao year (2011)
Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper
67.2 x 51 cm. (26 1/2 x 20 1/8 in.)
20th Century