Top Lot at New York Spring Sales Photo Album of "Six Dragons"

CHEN RONG (13TH CENTURY) AS CATALOGUED IN SHIQU BAOJI, Six Dragons

Auction House: Christie's New York
Sale: Important Chinese Art from The Fujita Museum
Date: 2017/3/15
Lot No.: 507
Painting Part Size: 34.3 x 440.4cm
Estimate: US$1,200,000 – 1,800,000
Sold: US$48,967,500

 

Inscribed, with one seal of the artist

Colophon by Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799), with two seals Dated mid-spring, wuxu year (1778) Colophons by Yu Minzhong (1714-1779), with two seals; Liang Guozhi (1722-1786), with two seals; Wang Jie (1725-1805), with two seals; Dong Gao (1740-1818), with two seals; Jin Shisong (1730-1800), with two seals; and Chen Xiaoyong (1715-1779), with two seals

Thirty-four collectors’ seals including fourteen of Emperor Qianlong (1711- 1799), one of Emperor Jiaqing (1760-1820), nine of Zhuang Husun (17th century), two of Prince Yixin (1832-1898