PROPERTY FROM ANOTHER OWNER A rare panoramic export painting of domestic scenes on a riverChina, Canton, Circa 1770-1780 Gouache on silk, framed; Depicting a continuous scene of life on a riverbank, with fishermen and pleasure boats on the waterway, while pavilions house women and children with visitors nearby, the riverbanks filled with lush foliage growing from rocky promontories and distant hills. 36 1/4in (91.4cm) x 165.5in (395.2cm) x 3in (7.6cm) 1770-1780 年前後 河岸市井外銷畫 Provenance Fibinger Collection, Copenhagen, Circa 1945 A Canadian Collection 出處： 哥本哈根 Fibinger 舊藏，1945 年前後 加拿大人藏品 Export views of life in Chinese villages of the eighteenth century were in great demand by Western merchants. Scroll paintings on silk of Canton (Guangzhou) were among the earliest paintings of Canton for the Western market. Among those is the 1772 Alexander Hume scroll painting, now in the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMM2015.0020.0001).(i) As with the current lot, that scroll is 36 inches tall. Another (36 x 109.8 in.), ca. 1770, was on the market in 2014.(ii) The height of these scrolls was dictated by the width of a loom which averaged 29 to 36 inches. Painted silk scrolls of landscapes and city views was a long-held tradition in Chinese art, though generally moreplex in execution for the domestic market than for the export trade.(iii) Painted silks for export were not unusual, and could be used for clothing, bed hangings, and bed and wall coverings, and as window shades. paring the dates of Canton views on silk andparable scenes on wallpaper, the unique village scene on this silk scroll would appear to date to 1770-80. Individual scenes found on this scroll are similar to those on eighteenth century porcelains and on panoramic wallpapers. Selecting a multitude of scenes created aposite landscape of a bucolic but fictional China for Western consumption. Scenic wall coverings, generally painted on gouache on paper, were mostmonly illustrated in multiple horizontal registers to convey a scene of distance, with the most distant landscape painted as the top section and inevitably showing a range of mountain peaks, as here. Similar scenes are found in the top registers of wallpapers at Harewood House, near Leeds, hung by Thomas Chippendale in 1769; in the Chinese Room at Westport House, County Mayo, probably hung in the 1770s or 80s (iv); and in the room of papers of about 1800-1803 from Strathallan Castle, Perthshire, now in the Peabody Essex Museum (v). See another silk painting of Canton in the Goteborgs Stadsmuseum (CM13,239) measuring 32.6 x 308.2in, published in Gotesborgs Stadsmuseum, Ostindiskampagniet , 2000, p. 18-19. (i) /asset/the-alexander-hume-scroll-painting-of-foreign-factories-in-canton-u/CgGaQ-HbxAE-8Q?hl=en [accessed February 20, 2022] Hong Kong Maritime Museum, HKMM2015.0020.0001 (ii) /auction-lot/a-fine-and-early-chinese-scroll-painting-of-the-h-648-c