CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE

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RARE ET IMPORTANT ROULEAU DE PEINTURE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
Encre et couleur sur soie.
Il est méticuleusement peint d'une longue scène continue représentant des personnages se livrant à différentes activités festives lors des foires du temple au centre de la ville ; le rouleau est coupé des deux côtés. Il porte un cachet à six caractères de l'empereur Qianlong, Taishang Huangdi Zhi Bao ('Trésor de l'Empereur Emérite').

Longueur: 748 cm. (294 ½ in.)
Largeur: 30 cm. (12 in.)

Provenance

Previously in a private collection of a European collector who worked in the railway and salt industry in Qingdao in the early 20th century, acquired in Beijing between 1907-1908.

Further details

A RARE AND IMPORTANT HANDSCROLL DEPICTING A TEMPLE FAIR
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
INK AND COLOUR ON SILK

Lot Essay

This magnificent handscroll depicts a vivid and a festive continuous scene of a temple fair. The length, the high quality of the details and the presence of the Qianlong emperor 's seal all suggest that it was an an imperial painting. The current seal reads Taishang Huangdi Zhi Bao ('Treasure of Emperor Emeritus') and was frequently affixed to rare books and fine ancient or contemporary paintings and calligraphic works kept by the Imperial Household Department, as well as being used on Qianlong's own works.
Compare to an imperial handscroll of 17 meters, '10,000 tablets of an Imperial Audience', depicting a scene of Emperor Qianlong passing through Suzhou to Jiangnan, in the collection of the Tianjin Museum.

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