Asian Art Day One - 20th May 2009

Lot 223

Two Chinese gouache paintings

Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £1100

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Description

Two Chinese gouache paintings, depicting the manufacture and distribution of porcelain, one illustrating the digging and collection of clay from the mountains, the other showing figures turning andcarrying bowls, and laying out dishes to dry, c.1820, glazed and within bamboo frames, some surface damages, 39cm x 49cm. (2) Cf. C. Crossman, The China Trade, pp. 438 - 439, where 13 paintings from this series in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem are illustrated.