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Lot 255
FOUR FINE ANONYMOUS PAINTINGS OF SILK PRODUCTION
Estimated Value:
2.000 € - 3.000 €
Schätzpreis:
1.000 €
Description:
China, ca. 1800Je 33 x 42 cm R.
Four Gouache paintings, framed under Glass, ink and colors on paper. The four paintings are from a series depicting stages of the production of silk, originally perhaps consisting of twelve scenes. They depict the harvesting and cutting of mulberry leaves, the packing of the leaves in weaved mat boxes, the collecting, cooking and unwinding of the cocoons, and the examining of silk textiles. Such series of paintings depicting the various stages of industrial production, for example tea cultivation and the production of porcelain, were painted in workshops in Canton at the end of the eighteenth and in the early nineteenth century. They were intended for export and so they use European painting techniques, chiaroscuro and perspective. These four paintings are extremely fine and early examples of these popular series and may have been executed around 1800.
Collection Dr. Rainer Kreissl (1924 - 2005) - Important South German private collection, assembled before 1990
