Lot 210

It is a work on paper, mounted on ivory coloured silk. Scroll was remounted on silk by Man Luen Choon, HK in 1989 after damage by water leak in roof. See attachment below.



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Ex Collection of Connoisseur and Collector, the British Heiress Lady Ann Juliet Dorothea Maud Tadgell, formerly Lady Juliet de Chair, Somerset; Purchased from Michael Leach Gallery, London, 1986

The eagle in Chinese art represents boldness and the character 'ying' is homophonous with the word for hero. The popular depiction in painting of an eagle standing alone, is a rebus for 'yingxiong duli', meaning 'a hero who stands alone is peerless'. It alludes to a poem from the Yuan dynasty referring to the scholar-officials who were not willing to bow to foreign rulers, even at the cost of their political advancement.