An exceptional late 18th century Qianlong black and
gold lacquer hand painted Chinese export panel.
The scene depicts the former rural life of the area.
People engaged in silk processing.
A child with his father and grandmother, as well as a woman inside the house (pagoda)
With floral decorations, set in an idyllic landscape on the riverbank.
Origin: Asia, Origin: China, circa 1st half 18th Century
Depicting Sericulture, or silk farming – the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. The rectangular panel is richly decorated in gold and red lacquer with women engaged in silk production in a farmhouse by a river. Their faces and hands picked out in silver lacquer, the rocky landscape with pine, bamboo, chrysanthemum, willow and other trees, all against a black ground and contained within a repeating foliate border. The figure on the left hand side is weaving the silk – the finished product – using a loom.
In The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, furnishings and exotic curiosities‘, Carl L.
Crossman discusses the depictions of China’s large silk industry in watercolours and gouaches. He explains that they: ‚have handsome landscape backgrounds and show in great detail an idealised view of the pavilions and gardens of the residence of a wealthy Chinese, rather than the place of manufacture‘ (Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, furnishings and exotic curiosities‘, Antique Collectors‘ Club, 1991, p. 180). An example of such a scene is presented in this panel.
Bibliography:
Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, furnishings and exotic curiosities‘, Antique Collectors‘ Club, 1991.
Dimensions
H e i g h t : 51 c m ( 2 0 i n c h e s )
W i d t h : 7 7 c m ( 30,25 i n c h e s )
Price: 9.500 €
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Provenance of private German collection.
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