97 | premium
AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE PAINTING ON SILK HANGING SCROLL, CHINA, EARLY MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) OR EARLIER DYNASTY
The painting is on silk and applied on paper. Painted in ink and colour on silk delightfully decorated with a continuous scene of figures in a large complex palace compound with a fenced garden with shrubs and flowers bushes, rocks and pine trees hiding part of the roofs with their leafy branches. The scene showing several maids servant engaged in their own activities, while some court ladies elegantly dressed engaged in leisurely pursuits meanwhile a musician lady is playing a wood guqin instrument to a couple close by within pavilions and garden beautifully settings and in the distance a mountainous landscape. As is common for a painting of this age, the surface with wears and small losses, folds and stains, as visible from the images.
128 cm high, 90,5 cm wide
128 cm high, 90,5 cm wide
ESTIMATE € 8.000 - 10.000
Provenance: from the private collection of an Italian gentleman and thence by descend, in the property since the 50ies
LOTS
48
A RARE SMALL VASE IN GRES AND ENAMELLED IN AMBER AND GREEN, PROBABLY MID MING DYNASTY
A RARE SMALL VASE IN GRES AND ENAMELLED IN AMBER AND GREEN, PROBABLY MID MING DYNASTY
ESTIMATE € 100 - 200
46
A PAIR OF ROUGE DE FER ENAMELLED LOTUS OVOID VASES AD COVERS, CHINA, LATE QING DYNASTY (2)
A PAIR OF ROUGE DE FER ENAMELLED LOTUS OVOID VASES AD COVERS, CHINA, LATE QING DYNASTY (2)
ESTIMATE € 800 - 1.200
42
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRASATTVA, SINO-TIBET, QING DYNASTY, 18TH; 19TH CENTURY
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRASATTVA, SINO-TIBET, QING DYNASTY, 18TH; 19TH CENTURY
ESTIMATE € 1.000 - 1.500
41 | premium
A LARGE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN, SHI-SOU MARK, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
A LARGE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN, SHI-SOU MARK, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
ESTIMATE € 20.000 - 30.000
40 | premium
A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF DAOIST GOD WENCHANG WANG, CHINA, LATE MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF DAOIST GOD WENCHANG WANG, CHINA, LATE MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
ESTIMATE € 10.000 - 15.000
39
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE DUCK CENSER AND COVER, CHINA, LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE DUCK CENSER AND COVER, CHINA, LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
ESTIMATE € 1.500 - 2.000
37
A RARE BRONZE MIRROR, LATE EASTERN HAN, THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD, LATE 2ND-3RD CENTURY
A RARE BRONZE MIRROR, LATE EASTERN HAN, THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD, LATE 2ND-3RD CENTURY
ESTIMATE € 400 - 600