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A set of nine Chinese watercolours by unknown artist, 19th Century.

Estimate
60 000 - 80 000 SEK
5 700 - 7 600 EUR
5 990 - 7 980 USD
Hammer price
50 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A set of nine Chinese watercolours by unknown artist, 19th Century.

Depicting scenes from court life against a golden ground. Each with calligraphy to the reverse, framed so you can see it. Measurment motif 16,5-18 cm. Measurment with frame 21,5-26,5 cm.

Wear, loss of paint.

Provenance

From a private Swedish Collection.

These paintings reveal the hidden world of the Qing court.

China’s grand imperial era––the Qing dynasty––was a multiethnic and multicultural state founded in 1644 by a small northeast Asian group who came to call themselves "Manchus." These conquering rulers adopted the Forbidden City in Beijing as the seat of the government. The Manchu ruling house differed from their populous Han Chinese subjects by language, history, and culture.

Recently there has been several exhibition focusing on the women in the forbidden city. These paintings all give us a glipse of the hidden world of the palace, depicting both women, men, children and gives us a feeling how antiques and precious objects were displayed around the palace.