CHINESE SCROLL PAINTING OF PHOENIX ON ROCK SIGNED BY MEI LANFANG. Image only size 103cm by 37cm. We provide in-house packing and shpping service. Shipping cost will be added into invoice. USA demostic shipping cost 30USD. International 100USD. LOT 252 TO LOT 432 FROM CONGBISHANFANG ZHANG BOJU COLLECTION FROM HONGKONG.Zhang Boju (1898-1982), native Veronon, nicknamed Cong Bi and Youchun master. Also named as Xiangcheng. He was born in Henan Province in 1898 in an official eunuch family, son of Mr. Zhang Jinfang. Yuan ShiKai’s cousin. Then successor to his uncle Zhang Zhenfang. He has been obsessed with ancient cultural relics all his life and devoted to collection calligraphy and painting monuments. He has bought the most ancient ink handed down from China. Ping Fu Tie by Lu Ji in the Western Jin Dynasty. the most ancient paintings handed down from generation to generation Zhan Ziqian’s Spring Tour. On the Balcony Post by Li Bai, who was a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. Song Huang Tingjian’s Upper Seat Post. Zhao Ji’s Xuejiang Return Scroll. Yuan Qian Selection Mountain Residence Scroll and so on are important cultural relics that occupy a unique position in the history of art. As many as 118 of the top Chinese calligraphy and painting monuments in China’s dynasties can be found in his book Congbi Calligraphy and Painting Record, which is known as the “first collection in the world”. This special collection includes Shen Quan, Leng Mei, Zheng Banqiao, BaDaShanRen, Jiang Tingxi, Wang Meng, Zou Yigui, Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi etc. Among them, Zhang Boju and Zhang Daqian met in the early 1930s and became friends because of their common collection hobbies. Zhang Bojus collection is not greedy. They are all boutiques. Buying calligraphy and paintings is rare. and there is a decisive decision to throw a lot of money. But collecting this industry has many characteristics that are not available in the industry. Many treasures. even if you have money. you can’t buy them in your life. and some treasures you many only see them once in your life. but you miss them for various reasons. Looking back on Zhang Bojus life. it’s really touching. He loves the country and the nation. and painstaking efforts to culture all his life. at all his life. he values morality and friendship. even if there are thousand of national treasures. it is not as good as Zhang Boju alone. Zhang Boju’s biggest hobby is collection. which made him scatter almost all his family property. Because of this hobby he made his legendary life.