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ANONYMOUS (19TH CENTURY)
Birthday Celebration / Naval Commisioner
Birthday Celebration inscribed by Li Hui (d. 1853), with one seal Both paintings contain strikingly individualised portraits of their central
Naval Commissioner inscribed by Sun Yunhong (19th century), with one seal figures, set within broader narrative scenes. The careful attention to skin
Both paintings are dated siyou year of the Daoguang period (1849) tone and bone structure in the faces of the figures illustrates a synergy of
Two scrolls, both mounted and framed, ink and colour on silk European and Chinese modes, typical of elite commissions of the period.
40 x 65 3/8 in. (99 x 166 cm.) (each) (2)

£10,000-15,000 US$13,000-19,000
€11,000-16,000 清代 無款
慶壽圖 / 鎮海圖
PROVENANCE:
慶壽圖，李僡 （?-1853年）題，文不綠。鈐印：惠人
Private English collection
鎮海圖，孫雲鴻題，文不綠。鈐印：翰生
These paintings were both commissioned by Qing officials in China in 1849. 倆幅畫道光酉巳年作（1849年）。
設色絹本，鏡框
The inscriber of Birthday Celebration, Li Hui (d. 1853) is recorded among
the exemplary biographies in the Official History of the Qing Dynasty. His 來源:
resistance against the forces of the Taiping Rebellion was particularly noted, 英國私人舊藏
receiving praise from the Xianfeng Emperor. He died in service against 題慶壽圖的李僡 ，陝西華陽人，道光二年進士（1822）。1853年反太平軍卒於任上。綠於
the rebellion in 1853 (Qingshi Gao, Liezhuan 212). The inscriber of Naval 《清史稿，列傳二百十二》。
Commissioner, Sun Yunhong, identifies himself in his inscription as a
naval official.

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