Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy - 22nd May 2018
Lot 317
ANONYMOUS (EARLY 20TH CENTURY) EROTIC SCENES FROM DAILY LIFE A Chinese album of twenty-two erotic...
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £3000
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ANONYMOUS (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
EROTIC SCENES FROM DAILY LIFE
A Chinese album of twenty-two erotic paintings, ink and colour on silk, mounted, 25cm x 22cm.
Provenance: from the collection of Abraham Perez Lizana, together with a letter from 1978 about his collecting in Paris in the 1900s.
Cf. F M Bertholet, Concubines and Courtesans, Women in Chinese Erotic Art, p.192, pl.194 and 195 for similar examples.