A SET OF THREE CHINESE SCHOOL GOUACHE PICTURES

CIRCA 1800

Details

A SET OF THREE CHINESE SCHOOL GOUACHE PICTURES
CIRCA 1800
Each depicting various stages of rice cultivation, with Chinese figures in landscape settings, each in an ebonised frame and with covered dealer's label to the reverse
14¼ x 18½ in. (36 x 47 cm.), including frames (3)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 15 April 1999, lot 146.

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Lot Essay

These orderly scenes depicting men working in the paddy fields cultivating rice, are very similar to a set of twenty-three watercolours of circa 1790 which formerly belonged to Lord Macartney during his Embassy in China in 1792-4 (see D. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong, London, 1997, pp. 36-37, no. 28).

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