ANONYMOUS (QING DYNASTY)

ANONYMOUS (QING DYNASTY)
BLUE FLYCATCHERS, PIGEONS AND FLOWERS

183cm x 42.5cm.

From the collection of Jean Brediam (d.1949).

A Chinese scroll painting, ink and colour on silk, depicting a pair of pigeons amidst rockwork, blossoming peonies and lilies, looking up towards a pair of blue flycatchers in flight.

From the collection of Jean Brediam (d.1949), who was the Director General of the Municipal Services of the French Concession in Shanghai until 1940. In 1946, he returned to China and was appointed the Head of the Shanghai office of the French Economic Mission.