Lot 113
Qi Zhijia (1594-after 1683)
Lot 113 Details
Qi Zhijia (1594-after 1683)
CALLIGRAPHY ALBUM
Wood board album with 18 pages of calligraphy. First page sealed, last page signed and sealed TOGETHER WITH an album of rubbings After Zheng Chenggong (1642-1662)
each page of calligraphy 12.7" x 8.2" — 22.2 x 15.2 cm.
Estimate $300-$400
Provenance:
112-116: Chinese Scroll Paintings from the Estate of KC Tai
Born in 1917 in Guandong, the late Kwok-Choi Tai took after his father, a venerated scholar from the late Qing Dynasty, and the third ranked official in Guangzhou province. Mr. Tai graduated from Sun Yatsen University during WWII and majored in Chinese literature and psychology. He later taught at the College of Education for the Hong Kong government until he retired in the early 1980’s. The majority of the paintings from his collection was acquired from the 1950’s to 1980’s and features the works if the Southern Chinese Lingnan School.