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TINGQUA (1809-1870)
A Chinese Album
the colophon 'Yuedong City [Canton] Tongwen Street, number 16 fourth year of the Xianfeng reign (1854)' blindstamped in silver foil
on the silk boards
watercolour, bodycolour and gold paint (one heightened with gum arabic) on thirty-eight album leaves bound in red silk boards
the sheets 15Ω x 11in. (39.3 x 27.9cm.)
£40,000-60,000 US$50,000-74,000
€46,000-68,000

A very rare intact album from Tingqua's studio, in its original silk boards. The subjects comprise: Tingqua's Studio; A Chinese
Cobbler; Flowers; Flowers and Butterfies; A Chinese Goddess (Guanyin); Flowers and Insects; A Lacquer Shop; A Peddler;
Insects; A Procession; Flowers and Insects; Chinese Carvers; Flowers and Insects; A Procession; Harvesters; Birds; A Court
Lady; Tangerines and Pears; Insects and Flowers; Insects and Flowers; A Blessing; Lanterns; A Birthday Ceremony; Peacock and
Birds; Musical Instruments; Flowers and Insects; A Goddess (Bodhisattva); Flowers and Insects; Birds in a Tree; A Procession;
River Scene; Trellis Makers; Butterfies; Flowers in a Vase; Tea Manufacture; Lanterns; Porcelain Production; and Bird Cage. The
inscriptions on either side of the studio on the frst sheet translate as: 'The shadows of the fowers and clouds extend from the
curtain to the foor' and 'At midnight the sound of studies as the moon hangs in the sky’.

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