wang-shangjie-chinese-1825-1917-fan-painting-of-fish
Lot 1048
Wang Shangjie (Chinese, 1825-1917), Fan Painting of Fish
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Dated 1888 spring, ink and colors on paper, fan shape, painted with long elegant gray silver fish swimming through the water with blue spots and shadowy water weeds in the background, inscribed with a poem, dated, and signed in ink to upper right side together with two red artist seals, professionally framed under glass.

Frame dimensions 14 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.

From the Estate of William and Joan Sommers

Purchased in Taipei, Taiwan in 1966.

Some losses to paint on edges of fan and a larger loss to upper center top; some repairs; some straighten creases; not examined outside of the frame.