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CHINESE SCHOOL
MID-19TH CENTURY
An album of studies of birds and torture scenes, comprising eighteen illustrations of various birds including mandarin ducks, peahen, finch, crane and cockatoo, perched on branches of flowers and fruit, and twenty-two torture scenes graphically depicting punishment, beating, decapitation, dismemberment, imprisonment and stretching, minor foxing
Gouache on paper, in brocade bound album
15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (40 x 31.8cm.)
(43)
MID-19TH CENTURY
An album of studies of birds and torture scenes, comprising eighteen illustrations of various birds including mandarin ducks, peahen, finch, crane and cockatoo, perched on branches of flowers and fruit, and twenty-two torture scenes graphically depicting punishment, beating, decapitation, dismemberment, imprisonment and stretching, minor foxing
Gouache on paper, in brocade bound album
15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (40 x 31.8cm.)
(43)
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