TWO LARGE SHEETS OF IMPERIAL PAPER

YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)

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TWO LARGE SHEETS OF IMPERIAL PAPER
YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)
The larger lacquered pink-ground paper with scattered gold flecks; the smaller white Xuan rice paper finely detailed depicting a dragon in each corner, both mounted as hanging scrolls
80 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. (204 x 102 cm.) and 53 7/8 x 25 5/8 in. (137 x 65 cm.) (2)

Provenance

A Japanese private collection formed at the beginning of the 20th century

Lot Essay

Another example of imperial Xuan paper from the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, was included in the exhibition The Life of the Emperor Qianlong, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, 2002, Catalogue no. 66 where it is noted that this paper originated from the Chunhua Xuan (Xuan lodge) and was produced from 1769 onwards.

For examples of gold-flecked wax paper using different coloured ground including the present pink ground in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, see Zhongguo Wenfang Sibao Quanji, Four Treasures for the Scholar's Studio, Vol. 3, Beijing, 2008, p. 133, no. 128.

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