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Lot 291
A FINE GARDEN SCENE PAINTING SIGNED QIU YING (1494-1552)
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result:
1.942 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, ca. 18th c.33,6 x 204 (45 x 234) cm
Gathering in a terraced summer garden. Ink and colors on silk, handscroll format, mounted. The figures are depicted in finely detail at various activities: playing Go, writing a poem, picking flower branches, amusing a bird, watching children playing, etc. On the left edge the host is sitting with his wife on a Luohan bed; On the right edge, a guest with his accompanying is arriving outside the garden wall. Signature: painted by Shifu Qiu Ying, an artist's seal: Shizhou, five (collector's) seals. Another seven seals at the right edge.
From the estate of Sergio Insunza Barrios (1919-2014), a Chilean lawyer, politician and the former Minister of Justice (1972-1973), acquired locally in the mid-1950s when he visited China with Salvador Allende, later the President of Chile - Traces of age, very minor damage
