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AFTER DING GUANPENG (19TH CHINESE EXPORT SCHOOL (19TH STUDIO OF LAMQUA (MID-19TH
CENTURY) CENTURY) CENTURY)
Interior scenes Silk production, part-set
Two Ladies Gouache on paper, framed and glazed. Gouache on paper, framed and glazed.
Finely painted in ink and colour on silk with 38.5cm (15 3/8in) x 29.5cm (11 5/8in) (2). Each: 21.5cm (8 1/2in) x 28cm (11in) (4).
two ladies standing side by side, one with
her arm around the other’s shoulder and £2,000 - 3,000 £1,500 - 2,000
reaching out to a bird on a perch before them, CNY17,000 - 26,000 HK$20,000 - 30,000 CNY13,000 - 17,000 HK$15,000 - 20,000
suspended from a blossoming prunus tree,
in a fenced garden with pierced rockwork, Provenance
inscribed ‘respectfully painted by Ding Reputedly gifted to Raimond Brascassar in 15
Guanpeng’, framed and glazed. 27.5cm x April 1860 by his brother (facsimile of letter)
25.5cm (10.3/4in x 10in)

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY8,600 - 13,000 HK$10,000 - 15,000

Ding Guanpeng was a court artist who was
active in the 18th century.

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