A PAINTING DEPICTING A PAIR OF MANDARIN DUCKS IN A LOTUS POND

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2.500 € - 3.500 €

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Description:

China, Qing dynasty, 19th c.
155 x 69.5 cm (173 x 85 cm R.)
Ink and colours on paper, hanging scroll format, framed under glass. A pair of mandarin ducks is shown between pink flowering lotus. Other water plants such as yellow flowering floating heart water lilies. A few insects fly between the lotus leaves. The depiction symbolises a happy, harmonious marriage through the birds, but also the lotus and the pair of insects. Top left a signature and two seals.
Collection of Prof. Dr Hermann Schröder (1902-1991), Aachen, and expanded by his family - Damages due to age, partially restored

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