A PAIR OF IMPERIAL RED-GROUND 'DRAGON' CANVASES

QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF IMPERIAL RED-GROUND 'DRAGON' CANVASES
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Each with a vivid red ground finely decorated in shades of gold and outlined in white with four dragons encircling a central 'flaming pearl' amidst swirling clouds and flames
25 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (64.5 x 65 cm.) (2)

Provenance

A Japanese private collection

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Lot Essay

Compare with a very similar red-ground canvas decorated with dragons in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Wenfang Sibao Quanji, Four Treasures for the Scholar's Studio, Vol. 3, Beijing, 2008, pp. 188-189, no. 180. Two very similar canvases, one of the same size as the present examples, were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 3140.

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