CHINA, Minguo period (1912-1949) - Lot 125

CHINA, Minguo period (1912-1949) Beautiful apocryphal album, including : . Twelve hardback double-page spreads, illustrated with twelve ink paintings on silk depicting various lake and mountain landscapes, animated with figures and pavilions, combined with calligraphic poems on silk, appearing opposite on the double-page spread ; eleven of the paintings with a signature Qiang Guozhong 強國忠, court painter during the reign of the Kangxi emperor, the twelfth with a signature Shuijin Daoren, artist name of Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322); the poems, written in various styles, supposedly match those of great calligraphic masters of the past ; . Two double-page colophons, calligraphed on paper, one signed Fuchen Jushi, recalling the Buddhist name of the future emperor Yong Zheng (1722-1735), with a date of the 15th day of the 9th month of 1715 ; . Two double-page frontispiece, with two large characters on pale yellow paper speckled with gold, including "fir and rock" . . Two blank double pages, on pale yellow paper speckled with gold. . Two brocaded silk-covered boards decorated with a pavement of predominantly blue geometric motifs. Sixteen double-page spreads of paintings and calligraphy, with white linen and silk damask backgrounds, decorated with stylized motifs. (Moisture stains on some pages; foxing; minor wear and small accidents). Dishes: 47.8 x 37 cm Total double-page size: 47.7 x 73.8 cm Paintings and calligraphy: 35.4 x 29.9 cm Large-print size: 35.3 x 29.4 cm Note: an apparently similar album from the Kangxi period was sold by Christie's Paris, June 11, 2014, lot 164.