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Style: Qing
Set of Four Chinese Immortals Screen Paintings, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes—the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Gouache
Chinese Qing-Dynasty Ancestor Portrait
Located in Chicago, IL
This intricately detailed composition is a late-Qing dynasty ancestor portrait depicting several generations of a family's male ancestry. Or...
Category
Late 19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Silk, Paint, Pigment
Chinese Bed Canopy of Phoenix and Fruits, Paint on Wood Panel, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
The owners of this work of art were likely the only two people in the world lucky enough to have access to its beauty. The experience of art itself can be an intimate one, and this bed canopy, hand-painted 100 years ago by an artist in Canton, was more intimate than most. It brings to life symbols of prosperity and good fortune for a married couple...
Category
19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood Panel
$2,996 Sale Price
30% Off
Qing Dynasty Floral Bed Canopy Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Thoughts of a long, happy life greeted the young couple who gazed up from their bed on this canopy panel. Adorned with chrysanthemums and peaches, both symbols of longevity, the lyri...
Category
19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood Panel, Lacquer
$2,304 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Reverse Glass Painting of Taoist Immortals, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Popularized during the Qing dynasty, reverse glass painting requires an artist to essentially work backwards, starting with details and shading before adding color and form. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effect, this exacting technique doesn't allow for any corrections, and is only revealed to its full effect when the glass pane is turned around. This example dates to the late 19th century and depicts the Taoist immortals He Xiangu...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint, Wood
Chinese Reverse Glass Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
With exquisite detail and sparkling color, this portrait of a young woman is a remarkable example of reverse glass painting. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effe...
Category
Late 19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint
Monumental Chinese Ancestor Portrait, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Reflecting the role that ancestor worship played in Chinese culture, this Qing-dynasty painting depicts several generations of family, dressed in intrica...
Category
20th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood, Paint, Pigment
Pair of 19' century Chinese Reverse-Painted Mirror Pictures
Located in Rome, IT
A pair of Chinese reverse glass painting representing women and a child in a garden pavillion. Original "Chinese Chippendale" framing.
China for export, circa 1830.
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Paint
Pair of 19' century Chinese Reverse-Painted Mirror Pictures
Located in Rome, IT
A pair of Chinese reverse glass painting representing women and a child in a garden pavillion. Original "Chinese Chippendale" framing.
China for expor...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Paint
Pair of 19' century Chinese Reverse-Painted Mirror Pictures
Located in Rome, IT
A pair of Chinese reverse glass painting representing women and a child in a garden pavillion. Original "Chinese Chippendale" framing.
China for expor...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Paint
Abstract Landscape, Maroon
Located in Sungai Petani, Kedah
I depicted the fall landscape onto a merry merlot base. In this figurative painting, I played with calligraphy. Round-leaves of the Mangrove Apple trees shines in bronze calligraphic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic
Qing Dynasty Chinese painted mirror / glass painting “Traditional Scene”
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind Chinese painted mirror, or mirror with reverse painting, originally from the Qing Dynasty, around the end of the 19th century. It depicts various traditional scenes fo...
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1870s Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass
Chinese Reverse Glass Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in Chicago, IL
With exquisite detail and sparkling color, this portrait of a young woman is a remarkable example of reverse glass painting. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effe...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass, Paint
"Love and Lotus Boys, " Ink on Linen Panels, 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Drawn with a fine line and fresh, sketched quality, this folk hanging unites two scenes of lucky hoho lotus boys circumscribed in frames punctuated with fruits such as pomegranate, symbolic of prosperity and good fortune. On top, the two explore the natural wonders of the world...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Linen, Wood, Ink
Chinese Mythical Immortal Screen Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Since the 12th century, people in China have used folding screens and doors to partition and decorate their homes - the vivid scenes backing the screens added life and color to a room. This 19th-century painting is delicately brushed of gouache and ink on fabric and was originally part of a set of eight backing a wooden screen in northern China.
The figure depicted is one of the mythical Eight Immortals of Taoism. Said to have attained immortality through their studies of the natural world, each of the Eight Immortals represents a different condition in life and together they impart a blessing of prosperity and longevity. Depicted here is immortal Lan Caihe, the patron saint of florists and gardeners. Standing atop a lotus leaf in open water, they hold a gardening hoe in one hand and a basket for flowers...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Ink, Pigment
Abstract Landscape, Maroon
Located in Sungai Petani, Kedah
Walked into the Fall I landscape, I filled the Fall II with a lot of tiny gold leaves. In this figurative painting, I focus on small leaves of the Mangrove Orange trees to shine in g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
$1,755 Sale Price
25% Off
Chinese Bed Canopy Painting of Peonies and Pheasants, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
The experience of art itself can be an intimate one, and this bed canopy, hand-painted over 100 years ago by an artist in Canton, was more intimate than most. Delicately painted pheasants...
Category
19th Century Qing Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood Panel
$3,416 Sale Price
30% Off
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