ALBUM OF TWELVE CHINESE 'OPERA' PITH PAINTINGS
STUDIO OF HOANQUA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
£1,638
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
清 Hoanqua畫室 通草紙畫梨園圖 畫冊(共十二幅)
gouache on pith paper, mounted with ribbon to paper leaves, brocade-covered cardboard covers, depicting various Chinese opera scenes, a label stamped 'Hoanqua, Paints picture, Landscape, in Old China Street, No. 26' affixed to the first sheet in the album
Dimensions
18cm x 29cm each; album: 24.8cm x 34cm
Provenance
Private Scottish collection, Aberdeenshire; inherited from current owners' grandparents, who were in China at the turn of the century, brought back to California then shipped to Scotland in the 1960s.
蘇格蘭私人收藏,亞伯丁郡;繼承自現任藏家之祖輩,其於清末民初期間得自中國,隨後至美國加州,1960年代遷至蘇格蘭。
Footnote
A comparable set of twelve framed pith paper paintings, studies of birds, also by Hoanqua Studio, was sold at Bonhams London, 4 November 2024, lot 193.