YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY

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A RARE LARGE PAINTING ON STUCCO
yuan/early ming dynasty
The rectangular section of a composite wall colourfully painted with three female Bodhisattvas dressed in long many-layered robes and sashes billowing in the wind, their rounded faces crowned by intricate flaming tiaras, their slender hands supporting a scholar's rock in a basin, a parasol and a flowering lotus, some areas highlighted with raised lines, minor cracks and losses
53 x 37in. (134 x 94cm.), framed

Provenance

Acquired in Continental Europe before 1949

Lot Essay

Compare the stucco relief painted with flying apsara in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, Catalogue no.474.

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