Lot n° 256
Estimation :
2000 - 2500
EUR
[China]. YOEEQUA. Album of 12 paintings on rice paper. Guang - Lot 256
[China]. YOEEQUA. Album of 12 paintings on rice paper. Guangzhou, ca. 1835. In-4 (ca. 33 x 25 cm).
Rare and superb collection of compositions painted with great finesse. The support is made of translucent vegetable pith, which is most often referred to as "rice paper" or "mulberry pith". The freshness of the well-preserved colours is remarkable.
The album bears a red stamp on the back of the upper cover: "Yoeequa Painter / old street N° 34". This is the mark of a Chinese painter or workshop active in Guangzhou around 1830-1840, who mainly produced such collections of drawings documenting Chinese flora, customs and industries.
Composition of the 12 plates of the collection: 1. male character. - 2. female character 3. Flower, wasp, butterfly. - 4 Two birds - 5. movable objects (altar?) - 6. A junk. - 7 Butterflies. - 8 Two fish. - 9 Supplication, strangled man. - 10. butterfly on branch with berries - 11. Two birds. - 12. Butterflies and insects.
The binding of the period is in silk with an azure blue background, decorated with repeated floral motifs embroidered in three colours and golden yellow, with closing laces; it was probably supplied by the workshop. Each plate is held on its backing paper with an azure blue silk border.
(Spine of binding worn; tears on several boards, spotting in the inner margins only slightly affecting the illustration on one board).
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