COLLECTION OF TWELVE PITH PAPER PAINTINGS OF PUNISHMENT AND TORTURE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
£750
Auction: 8 November 2017 at 17:00 GMT
Description
ink and colour on paper, illustrating 'Magistrate in court', 'Arrest of criminal', 'Punishment of criminal by parading him in the street', 'Slapping the mouth for telling lies', 'Punishment by stretching the criminal on a wooden bench', 'Punishment by cangue, or wooden pillory', 'Torture by pressing the ankles of criminal with wooden poles', 'Bambooing his breeches', 'Tying him to a stone', 'Banishment', 'Ling Ch'ee, i.e. cutting the flesh of the criminal piece by piece' and 'Beheading, the capital punishment of China' (12)
Dimensions
each 28x18cm
Footnote
Provenance:
Private English collection.