TWO CHINESE EROTIC PAINTINGS, each depicting an amorous couple engaged in lovemaking while either sipping tea and arranging their hair in a garden, or with greater concentration on bed below a tree, each with a 2 x 7 character couplets to one side, ink and colour on silk (minor wear), 18th century

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TWO CHINESE EROTIC PAINTINGS, each depicting an amorous couple engaged in lovemaking while either sipping tea and arranging their hair in a garden, or with greater concentration on bed below a tree, each with a 2 x 7 character couplets to one side, ink and colour on silk (minor wear), 18th century
42.5cm. x 33cm., and 50cm. x 33cm., framed and glazed (2)

Lot Essay

See footnote to lot ___. Free translations of the appended poems follow below:

'By a Lake'
By the shore of a lake their necks entwine;
Spent, they grow quiet and swing a fan to cool them.
She toys with her fine, cloud-black hair, sits in her man's lap;
Such delights and joys as these should not be thrown away.

''The Leaping White Tiger' or Penetration from the Rear'
On the bed are arranged the cups of coupled pleasure;
Across the pillow a jasper-mounted lute is at hand.
With sweet words she urges her man not to be rough;
She hangs on his rocking hips, supports his embrace.

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