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The important Italian collector lived and worked
in Shanghai between 1932 and 1936, as
representative of his Italian company and in
1937, following the Sino-Japanese war, he was
transferred to Dalian in Southern Manchuria.
After a brief period spent in Italy in 1938, he
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.
該重要意大利收藏家曾於1932至1936年作為某
意大利公司代表在上海工作生活，1937年日本
侵華戰爭爆發後遷往大連，1938年在意大利短
暫停留後又回到上海，此番在上海居住的1941
至1946年間，他獲得了其絕大部分中國藝術品
收藏。

Lot 101 in-situ with the collector

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品

101 Y
A VERY RARE LARGE COURT PAINTING OF LADIES PLAYING
CHESS
Yongzheng/Qianlong
Ink and pigment on silk depicting two Court ladies playing weiqi within
a bamboo grove, each of the ladies with finely arched eyebrows and
delicately painted strands of hair under ornate headdresses, clad in
elegant loose flowing robes with exquisitely detailed hems, the black
and gilt weiqi boxes and covers decorated with dense foliate scroll, the
top right with a large apocryphal seal ‘Jing ji shan zhuang’ seal, glazed
and framed.
Including the frame: 155cm (61in) wide x 99cm (39in) high.

£60,000 - 80,000
CNY530,000 - 700,000

清雍正/乾隆 宮廷繪畫 仕女對弈圖 絹本設色 鏡框裝裱

Provenance: a distinguished Italian private collection formed circa
1930s-1940s, and thence by descent

來源：意大利顯赫私人收藏，約二十世紀三十至四十年代入藏，
並由後人保存迄今

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