SERIES OF SEVEN SCENES FROM THE NOVEL 'THE DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER'

Estimated Value:

15.000 € - 25.000 €

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Description:

China, 18th/19th. c.
Je 105 x 176 bzw. 104 x 156 cm, R.
Ink and colors on paper, mounted and each in a quatrefoil wood frame. Seven scenes from the famous novel 'Hong Lou Meng' in Daguanyuan Garden ('Grand View Garden'), each lower left the title in a rectangular cartouche raising from a lotus. The larger picture as the central representation 'Concubine Yuanchun visits her parents' and another six in smaller format depicting such as 'Shi Taijun's banquets in Grand View Garden', 'Grandma Liu tells her own making stories', 'Writing poems in Qiushuang Studio'.
From an old European private collection, collected before 1990 - Partly damaged, signs of age, cracks, stained, part. rest.

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