After Zhou Mengfu, painting on silk of a horse and groom, pr...

Hammer

£2,600

After Zhou Mengfu, painting on silk of a horse and groom, probably Ming or early Qing dynasty, inscribed in ink Zhou Mengfu with various red seals, 54 x 32cm, many holes to silk, Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

CONDITION: Faded, discoloured and with numerous holes to the silk, old silk re-lining with re-painting to patches which are now obvious where they have aged differently to the original silk and paint. Probably laid down on a board. Glass in frame cracked.



Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.



Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.