Lot 8084: Attributed to Liang Kai (active c 1172-1204) Chinese Art from the Scholar's Studio

White Egret Hanging scroll, ink on silk, with two collectors' seals, with a fitted gilt lacquer box. 39 x 15in (99.3 x 38.2cm)

99.3 x 38.2cm

: The Tsao Family collection

(傳) 梁楷 白鷺 設色絹本 立軸 Published: Teisuke Toda and Hiromitsu Ogawa comp. Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings, Second Series, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections, University of Tokyo Press, 1998, p. 246, A53-006, as Liang Kai (1172-1204). 出版：戶田禎佑和小川裕充編，《中國繪畫總合圖錄 續編，第一卷：美國・加拿大篇》，東京大學出版會，1998年，p. 246, 圖 A53-006 Liang Kai was a painter in the Southern Song court, who later became a Chan Buddhist monk. James Cahill notes that Japanese collections tend to preserve the artist's gonbi paintings, while those in Chinese collections are largely in the xieyi style, the mode that Liang Kai is widely associated with. This particular gongbi work has a Japanese mounting.