CHINA, LATE QING PERIOD - Lot 20

Lot n° 20
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CHINA, LATE QING PERIOD - Lot 20
CHINA, LATE QING PERIOD Two rectangular cookie plaques decorated in black ink with a bivouac scene featuring four characters accompanied by a dromedary in a mountain landscape for one; two young women conversing on a terrace among rocks and bamboo for the other. Each is set in a cartouche of prunus flowers and calligraphic poems about love. They bear a Xu Buchan signature, in the taste of Qiu Shounian. Size: 37.8 x 27.8 cm Provenance Private collection of Monsieur Auguste Gérard (1852-1922), French ambassador to China (1893-1897) and Japan (1907-1913). Then by descent to the present owner. Lot mentioned as "plaques en grisaille" in the thirteenth line (p.3) of the inventory of objects entrusted by Monsieur Auguste Gérard, French ambassador to Tokyo, to M. Paul du Toict, Bould. du Régent 25 in Brussels in 1906. An anonymized copy of the page concerning this lot may be delivered to the buyer.
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