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A PAINTING OF SAMANTABHADRA ON
AN ELEPHANT
19th century
Ink and color on silk, framed and glazed.
114.3cm (45in) long x 66cm (26in) wide.
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 44,000
十九世紀 普賢菩薩像 絹本設色 鏡框裝裱

Provenance: a European private collection

來源：歐洲私人收藏

A native of Pordenone in the northeastern Italian
regent of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Girolamo Varaschini
(1899-1954) was a trustee of the Italian Chemical
Industry Chatillon, later renamed Italraion and
Snia Vicosa. Between 1932 and 1936, he lived
and worked in Shanghai as representative of his
Italian company and in 1937, following the Sino-
Japanese war, was transferred to Dairen in Southern
Manchuria. After a brief period spent in Italy in 1938,
Varaschini returned to Shanghai where he lived
between 1939 and 1940. He then moved to Beijing
where he lived between 1941 and 1946 and formed
the vast majority of his collection of Chinese Art,
which was partially included in a comprehensive
exhibition of Chinese Art in Venice in 1954.

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