LOT 212 A SUITE OF FOUR (4) CHINESE EXPORT HAND-PAINTED WALLPAPER PA...
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A SUITE OF FOUR (4) CHINESE EXPORT HAND-PAINTED WALLPAPER PANELS China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century Ink and colour on paper, each variously depicting ladies and boys in a garden landscape with pavilions and trees. Dimensions (each, approximately): 367 x 117,5 cm Provenance: Christie's, ‘Mount Congreve: The House Sale’, 2012/07/11-12, lot 924. Notes: 1. Mount Congreve – which was originally called ‘Brauchaille’ meaning the edge of a cliff in Irish - stands majestically above the River Suir, not far from the city of Waterford in the south east corner of Ireland. The house was built circa 1760 by the most-renowned local architect John Roberts for John Congreve, the son of a reputed politician and banker. 2. Wallpaper was considered the height of desirability and rarity during the Qing Dynasty and was extremely expensive. The French dealer Lazare Duvaux (c. 1703-1758), amidst others, records the sale of six sheets of ‘China paper’ to the Countess of Valentinois in 1756 for 144 livres (Carl L. Crossman, The China Trade, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 390). 3. The main subject is that of the sericulture. Those scenes may have been taken from the Yuzhi gengzhi tu 御製耕織圖 (Imperially Commissioned Illustrations of Agriculture and Sericulture) which was illustrated by Jiao Bingzhen 焦秉貞 (1680-1720, Kangxi period). [INTERNET KEYWORDS] CHINA, CHINESE, QING, ANTIQUE, CERAMIC, PORCELAIN, PAINTING, SCROLL, JADE, DYNASTIE, JAPANESE, VIETNAMESE
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