Lot 10. Anonymous, Qing dynasty, Portrait of Wang Yangming (1472-1529). Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 9,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016

Scroll, mounted for framing, ink and color on silk, 11 ¼ x 9 5/8 in. (28.8 x 24.4 cm.). Inscribed on the mounting

Christie's. Fine Chinese Paintings, 13 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza

Note: Wang Yangming (31 October 1472 – 9 January 1529), courtesy name Bo'an, was a Chinese idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general during the Ming dynasty. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker, with interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Zhu Xi. Wang was known as "Yangming Xiansheng" and/or "Yangming Zi" in literary circles: both mean "Master Yangming".