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FOUR CHINESE WALLPAPER PANELS Large format pictorial wallpaper panels such as these were produced
19th century in workshops in Guangdong and the Yangtze River Delta during the
Polychrome paint on paper, backed with cloth and mounted on wood early 18th century. It is believed that panels like these were produced
panels, each panel with flowering trees, insects and exotic birds solely for export to the European market, and the domestic demand
surrounding figures in a garden setting. was essentially non-existent. Initially the colorful and hand painted
138 x 45in (350 x 114cm), each panel. (4). panels were sought by Europeans as a less expensive alternative
to patterned textiles that were then used as wall coverings in noble
US$18,000 - 25,000 homes. Often depicting outdoor garden settings of exotic birds and
flowers that would stretch from floor to ceiling, the wallpaper would be
a key decorative element for a “Chinese room”. The figures depicted
外銷花鳥人物壁紙四幅 十九世紀 in the present set of wallpaper panels are unusually large, especially
when compared with other pictorial Chinese wallpaper panels that
Provenance have a figural element.
Sotheby’s New York, 23 April 1987
For an overview of the reception of Chinese wallpaper see Chinese
來源 Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland by Emile de Bruijn.
紐約蘇富比，1987年4月23日

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