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A PAIR OF IMPERIAL RED-GROUND 'DRAGON' PAINTINGS QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- silver and gold paint on silk mounted on paper
of square form, each decorated in silver and gold paint on red silk with four scaly dragons writhing amidst vaporing clouds in pursuit of a flaming pearl at the centre
Catalogue Note
A very similar example was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st December 2010, lot 3140, and another similar red-ground canvas decorated with dragons in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo Wenfang Sibao Quanji, Four Treasures for the Scholar's Studio, Vol. 3, Beijing, 2008, pp. 188-189, no. 180.