A VERY FINE PAIR OF CHINESE GOUACHE AND WATERCOLOUR PAINTING...

Hammer

£700

A VERY FINE PAIR OF CHINESE GOUACHE AND WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS ON PAPER
CIRCA 1856
清 珠江地区人物风景水粉画
约1856年

heightened in gum arabic, with village scenes from along the Pearl River, one with fishermen families and their moored boats, the other with flowering branches being sorted, with a figure smoking a pipe seated beside a staircase in the foreground
Total measurements of frames 42.5cm x 36cm. Each framed and glazed with UV protection glass.

NOTE: Other pieces from this very album were included by Marchant in their catalogue of Recent Acquisitions, 2008, no. 21, pp. 44-53.
This pair of paintings come from a complete album of 49 leaves and were painted before 15th December 1856. The album came with a German inscription which stated it was from Looling Hong, Shanghai, March 1861, and with a further description “given as a gift in Dortmund, Germany, December 1935.”
Copies of both these dedications are on the back of one of these frames.


Marchant: ‘Moving to Brook Street’
To be offered without reserve

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