Lot 144
ALBUM OF ELEVEN PITH PAINTINGS
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
£630
Description
清 廣東外銷通草紙畫各式人物圖 畫冊（共十一幅）
comprising: nine paintings depicting dignitaries and their wives, two loose, one painted with a dinner scene and the other with idyllic figures in a lake scene, except three, all in a red silk-bound album
Dimensions
album: 36cm x 25.5cm; paintings: 28cm x 18.7cm each
Provenance
Provenance: Private French collection; Gifted to the current owner's aunt by Mrs Gibbs in Normandy during the 1930s-1940s, when working for her first as a cook, and later as her housekeeper. Mrs Gibbs belonged to the renowned D&W Gibbs family, manufacturers of soap and toothpaste, famously used by British troops in France during the First World War.