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Place of Origin: Chinese
Framed Chinese Erotic Pillow Book, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A pillow book was meant to teach a young bride about the art of lovemaking. This rare museum-quality 19th century example is composed of 12 masterfully pai...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paper
Tibetan Thangka of Vaishravana, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Thangkas are devotional paintings displayed by Buddhists in monasteries, temples, and even their homes. This 19th-century Tibetan Thangka is rich with historical figures and symbolism arranged around the Viashravana in the painting's center. This lesser deity is the god of wealth...
Category
Mid-19th Century Tibetan Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric, Paint
Framed Chinese Painting of Horsemen playing Game with Sticks, Late 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
Chinese Painting of Horsemen playing Game with Sticks, Late 19th Century
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Screen With 6 Panels In Lacquered And Carved Wood - Double-Sided Decorations -
Located in Brussels, BE
Screen With 6 Panels In Lacquered And Carved Wood - Double-Sided Decorations - China - Circa 1950
Category
1950s Vintage Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export Trade Painting Depicting ‘the Tea Shop', Chinoiserie Chique
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A refined Chinese export painting depicting ‘The Tea shop’
Canton, early 19th century
Ink and watercolour on silk, H. 63.5 x W. 52.3 cm
Framed in giltwood frame.
?The paintin...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Pair of Chinese Reverse Paintings on Glass
Located in Essex, MA
Each nicely painted in reverse. One depicting a boy playing a flute to a terrapin in a sea and the other a man in a sea rising over a man floating in a shell. Carved wood frames.
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
$1,250 / set
Set of Eight Chinese Watercolors of Working Women
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare antique set of eight Chinese watercolors depicting women in various occupations executed in a traditional delicate style on pith. Presented in a gilt carved wood Asian style fra...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Unusual Eight Panel Chinese Coromandel Screen circa 1700-1800 with Carved Frame
Located in Manhasset, NY
Chinese Coromandel Screen, 18th Century, Rosewood, 8 Panel, Painted, Figural, Depicting Flying Geese
One of a kind. Chinese Coromandel screen from the late 1700s with a fabulous ros...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Rosewood
$30,000 Sale Price
50% Off
19th Century Pair Qing Dynasty Reverse Painted Mirrors
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century Pair Qing Dynasty Reverse Painted Mirrors depicting Court Scenes. Featuring Royal Figures and their servants and advisors. All wearing colourful traditional garments. A ...
Category
19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Paint
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Wooden Panels with Floral Motifs and Carved Objects
Located in Yonkers, NY
A pair of Chinese wooden panels from the 19th century, with floral motifs and carved objects. Created in China during the 19th century, each of th...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Early Chinese Export Reverse Glass Painting Depicting Deer, Monkeys & Wildlife
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite early and highly unusual Chinese export reverse glass painting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) beautifully depic...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paint
$4,716 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Chinese Turned Square Courtyard Panels, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Designing the intricate patterning of these 19th century northern Chinese lattice panels was like solving a puzzle. Skilled craftsmen pieced together handcut lengths of wood, precisely interlocking them to create a repeating diamond pattern...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Elm, Paper
Pair of Signed Antique Chinese Watercolour Silk Paintings of Geisha Girl Flowers
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of antique circa 1920’s Chinese Export hand painted on silk paintings depicting a Geisha girl and a floral scene with butterfly.
A very good looking and beautifully painted pair, they were made for the export market during the British colonialism...
Category
1920s Chinese Export Vintage Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
China "Seaside & Mountains" Landscape "Painting"
Located in South Burlington, VT
Chinese extraordinary natural stone "Painting" & with custom hardwood frame
Sea and Mountains in one unique work of art
This Chinese extraordinary natural stone "painting" of a mountain range in white and gray colors is called a dream stone Shih-hua. They are cut from historic Dali marble found in the Cangshan mountains of western China. These mysterious mountains, unique in the world, are known for yielding incredible and fantastic natural landscaped works of art created over tens of millions of years from mineral inclusions that affected the process of ancient organic material which transformed into limestone and finally resulted in marble- a metamorphic hard stone.
This art form is centuries of years old since the Ming dynasty. Dream stones became favored art in the west particularly since the 19th century when French collectors named them Pierres de reve.
This thin marble stone "painting" is approximately 1/4" thick and is cut from a large slab of rough material revealing incredible patterns in soft white and gray colors. Its weight is surprisingly modest- easily hung with standard hardware.
On occasion, private collectors would invite an artisan to inscribe a poetic description onto their more important dream stones and in this case the artists' seal mark and calligraphy translation reads:
Dimensions:
Frame: 16.5 inches high and 29 inches wide.
Site: 12.75 inches high and 25 inches wide.
Provenance: Private Chinese collection, Yunnan, China.
History of "White and Gray" dream stone paintings:
“White and Gray” dream stone paintings known in China as Shui Mo or Chinese painting stone...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Marble
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Early 20th Century Brown and Red Two-Panel Screen with Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese two-panel screen from the early 20th century, with carvings, gilt motifs and calligraphy. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this screen features ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Interlock Screen 4 Panels By André Fu Living
By André Fu
Located in Admiralty, HK
a timeless screen designed to integrate seamlessly into all interiors. be it used as a backdrop behind a sofa setting, or a partition besides a dining room, its ability to provide a degree of screening gives endless possibilities. crafted entirely with ash strips that interlock and thoughtful detailing that allows each panel to fully fold back, it is a piece to entice all spaces.
Wooden screen with 4 foldable panels in oak with bronze detail on the top edge, with wooden hinges.
Category
2010s Modern Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
$21,023 / item
19th Century Carved Chinese Windows, Set of 4
Located in Atlanta, GA
This set of four, Chinese carved window screens is from an 19th century house from the Shanxi province of China. Carved from Chinese Northern Elm...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Elm
$4,500 / set
Chinese Wooden Screen with Reverse Glass Painted Panels
Located in London, GB
This exquisite Chinese folding screen has been crafted from wood, and fitted with Fine reverse glass paintings. The screen is composed of six wooden panels. These panels are subdivid...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Glass
Framed Chinese Ancestor Portrait, circa 1900
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
Early 20th Century Qing Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Chinese Phoenix and Auspicious Fruit Canopy Painting, circa 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 b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Pine
Pair of Chinese Hand Carved Jade and Wood Table Screens
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a 19th century pair of Chinese hand carved oval jade and hard stone table screens with wood stands. They depict a semitransparent large egg sh...
Category
19th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Jade
$3,040 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique 19th Century Chinese Carved Rare 5-Panel Screen Room Divider
Located in West Hartford, CT
This rare antique 19th Century Chinese 5 panel Coromandel screen features incredible craftsmanship and period detail. The five panels are carved on both sides, with one side depicti...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Chinese 19th Century Three-Panel Lettice Bamboo Screen
Located in Kastrup, DK
Chinese three-panel lattice screen or room divider (each 245 x 55 x 4 cm.)
Made in bamboo
Original condition with a beautiful naturally aged patina, highlighted by a clear lacquer ...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bamboo
Large Antique Chinese Hand Painted Wallpaper Section in Carved Hardwood Frame
Located in Austin, TX
A wonderfully charming large and colorful Chinese hand painted wallpaper section in a carved and shaped hardwood frame. The wallpaper dates to the first half of the 20th century or e...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Hardwood, Paper
Four Antique 19th Century circa 1880 Chinese Gouaches on Rice Paper Geisha Girls
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of four antique circa 1880’s Chinese hand painted Gouache paintings depicting Geisha girls in traditional settings.
A very good looking and beautifully painted suite, they were made for the export market during the British colonialism...
Category
1880s Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Art Deco Garden Screen 4 Panels By André Fu Living
By André Fu
Located in Admiralty, HK
designed as a nod to the beauty of japanese zen gardens, this artfully designed movable screen is visually pure in its composition, yet intricate at the same time. crafted in solid a...
Category
2010s Modern Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Ash
$20,618 / item
Pair of 19th 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 expo...
Category
19th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Art Glass
$8,506 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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 Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Inside Painted Glass, "Landscape" Snuff Bottle by Fu Guoshun, 1996
Located in Tainan, TW
Fu Guoshun was born at Hebei in 1954. He was complimented as a Master of Chinese arts and crafts in 2012. It is the highest honor for an inside painting artist. There are only ten artists who earned this glory. He is also the director of China International Painting and Calligraphy Association, vice chairman of China Snuff Bottle Professional Committee, and vice-chairman of Hebei Inside painted snuff bottle Association. Since 1977, he has been studying the art of inside painting under Wang Xisan. Fu Guoshun is one of the best artists in Ji school.
Mr Fu Guoshun's inside paintings are exquisite. His works include landscapes, figures, animals, flowers, and birds to calligraphy with comprehensive skills. In addition, his professions are known for their elegance, flexibility, and light. With the three superb skills of poetry, calligraphy, and painting, there are only a handful of artists who can match up in the field of snuff bottles. It is difficult to find other artists who could compare his paintings from an artistic perspective when it comes to inside painted snuff bottles...
Category
20th Century Modern Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Pair of Scrolls: Chinese Court Figures (Taoist Ceremonial Painting)
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments on paper. Mounted panels. Top center reads: Fuku (Wealth)
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Chinese Peony and Pheasant Canopy Painting, circa 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 birds...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Pine
China Natural Mountain Landscape Stone "Painting"
Located in South Burlington, VT
This Chinese extraordinary natural stone painting of a mountain range in white and gray colors is called a dream stone Shih-hua;.
They are cut from historic Dali marble found in the Cangshan mountains of western China. These mysterious mountains, unique in the world, are known for yielding incredible and fantastic natural landscaped works of art created over tens of millions of years from mineral inclusions that affected the process of ancient organic material which transformed into limestone and finally resulted in marble- a metamorphic hard stone.
This art form is centuries of years old since the Ming dynasty. Dream stones became favored art in the west particularly since the 19th century when French collectors named them Pierres de reve.
This thin marble stone painting is approximately 1/4 inch thick and is cut from a large slab of rough material revealing incredible patterns in soft white and gray colors.
History of White and Gray dream stone paintings:
“White and Gray” dream stone paintings known in China as Shui Mo or Chinese painting stone...
Category
1990s Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Stone
$3,840 Sale Price
76% Off
19th Century a Pair of Chinese Silk Fans with Giltwood Handles
Located in Brea, CA
Antique 19th century hand painted floral motifs on silk Chinese fans Qing dynasty, the fan in silk with silk fringe and giltwood handles, housed within a conforming paper covered box...
Category
Late 19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Chi Shing, 'River Boats I', Framed Watercolor Painting, China, Mid-20th C
Located in Chatham, ON
CHI SHING - 'River Boats I' - Vintage watercolor landscape painting - vintage gold tone metal frame - finished with double matte boards - signed lower left -...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal
Silk, Chinese Painting, 19th Century, Temple Scene, Asia
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Silk, Chinese painting, 19th century, temple scene, Asia
Measures: H 81cm, W 48cm, W 1cm.
Category
19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Chinese Erotic Album Leaf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Pair of Antique Asian Mother of Pearl Inlaid Hardwood Panels
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Antique Asian Mother of Pearl Inlaid Hardwood Panels.
A pair or Vietnamese works Each one standing over 6-Feet tall, Intricately inlaid with numerous characters and threads, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood
$1,920 Sale Price / set
20% Off
FiVE CHINESE CH'IEN LUNG PERIOD 1736-1796 WATERCOLOUR BIRD PIANTINGS FRAMED
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of five original Watercolour paintings dating to the Ch'ien Lung Period 1736-1796 publishe...
Category
1960s Chinese Export Vintage Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
FiNE & COLLECTABLE ANTIQUE CIR 1860 CHINESE ANCESTRAL PORTRAIT IN MUSEUM FRAME
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite circa 1860-1880 Chinese Ancestral Portrait in a lovely museum glass exhibition fra...
Category
1860s High Victorian Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Chinese Reverse Painted Glass and Hardwood Table Screen
Located in Austin, TX
An unusual table screen featuring a reverse glass painted portrait of a young noble lady set into a hardwood frame and stand.
The beautiful maiden has a roun...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Hardwood
Chinese Seven-Panel Inlaid Zitan Screen Qing Dynasty/Republic Period Late 19th C
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An extraordinary and monumental seven-panel zitan screen from the late Qing Dynasty, dating to the Late 19th century. Masterfully crafted and richly decorated on both sides, the fron...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Antique Chinese Carved Teak Wood and Mother Of Pearl Table Screen, Circa 1890.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique Chinese Carved Teak Wood and Mother Of Pearl Table Screen, Circa 1890.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Teak, Mother-of-Pearl
20th Century Silk Embroidery Chinese Decorative Panel, 1980s
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great late 20th century Chinese decorative panel. Artwork on silk and tissue, embroidered, colored and painted, depicting a landscape with fi...
Category
1980s Vintage Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric
Antique 19th c Woodblock Print by Mizuno Toshikata - Sino Japan Battle_of_Son.
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very strong woodblock print
Long live the Great Japanese Empire! Our army's victorious attack on Seonghwan, Mizuno Toshikata 1866–1908
or
Hurrah and Hurrah Again for the Great E...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
$1,257 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage, Calligraphy, Watercolor Paintings, Chinese Art, China, 20th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A set of Chinese paintings
Perfect for vintage interiors
Condition
Yomiuri Shimbun (the size of one view double-page spread) 43.0. × 32.0 c...
Category
20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
$2,410 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Floral Longevity Canopy Painting, c. 1900
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
Early 20th Century Qing Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Pine, Paint
Chinese Hardwood and Nephrite Screen
Located in London, GB
This screen, comprised of four sections and formed from Chinese hardwood and nephrite, is a beautiful piece of Chinese design—the dark lustre of the nephrite accenting the warm tones...
Category
20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Jade
"Rome II" by Ren Hui
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting, like most of Ren Hui’s exquisite artworks, celebrates his subjects using a style that he calls “uncomplicated and honest.” The beautiful pattern of white carved out of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paint
$1,880
"Literary Gathering" Chinese Scroll Painting, c. 1923
Located in Chicago, IL
Exquisitely painted with delicate line work and a subdued color palette, this Chinese scroll painting is an Late 20th-century reproduction of a...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paper
Framed Pair of Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Ancestor Paintings on Silk
Located in Morristown, NJ
Antique pair of Qing dynasty ancestor portraits depicting a male and a female. Hand painted on silk and framed under glass within a large te...
Category
Late 19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Glass, Wood, Paint
Unusual Antique Chinese Divider with Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A 19th century Chinese divider with calligraphy, hand-painted on wood. This rectangular divider stands on two feet and displays calligraphy on both sides of its central panel. The panel is made of a light colored varnished wood and showcases different black ink writing on each side. This Chinese 19th century hand painted wooden divider...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Large Chinese Early 20th Century Hand Carved Shop Sign with Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A large Chinese hand carved shop sign from the early 20th century, with calligraphy. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this shop sign features Chinese char...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export Hand-Painted Oil on Canvas Painting of Interior Scene w/ Emperor
Located in New York, NY
Chinese Export Exceptionally Hand-Painted Oil on Canvas Painting Depicting Musicians Playing Music for the Emperor while Seated on his Royal Throne. Beautifully executed with great d...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Painted Wood Fragment Gilt Red Lacquer
Located in Somis, CA
A beautiful red lacquered, solid wood fragment painted with an opera scene of victory celebration, featuring various figures dressed in official uniforms and crowns. Remnant gold lea...
Category
Early 19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
$330 Sale Price
40% Off
Antique Woodblock Print Ukiyo-e Utagawa Kuniyoshi Prince Shôtoku attack on Mo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A lovely figural print by
Print artist. Pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni. One of the three principal 'Ukiyo-e' artists of the late Edo period, together with Kunisada (Toyokuni III) and Hir...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
$1,257 Sale Price
20% Off
China Beautiful Natural Mountain Waters Desktop "Painting"
Located in South Burlington, VT
This Chinese extraordinary natural stone marble "painting" of a mountain backdrop fronted by a peaceful body of water, is both unique and remarkable.
Called a dream stone Shih-hua it was cut from historic Dali marble found in the Cangshan mountains of western China. These mysterious mountains, unique in the world, are known for yielding incredible and fantastic natural landscaped works of art created over tens of millions of years from mineral inclusions that affected the process of ancient organic material which transformed into limestone and finally resulted in marble- a metamorphic hard stone.
Handsome custom hard wood frame
This particular dream stone is special- it is considered a master work of fine natural detail. We have had it framed in a handsome hardwood tabletop arts and crafts style frame...
Category
20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Marble
$2,280 Sale Price
40% Off
Inside Painted Snuff Bottles, Ten Pieces Snow Landscapes by Sun Sansong 1999
Located in Tainan, TW
Sun Sansong is the very early student of Wang Xisan. This collection is very rare and worth collecting. Ten Pieces are all his "FINE" works.
Artist: Sun ...
Category
20th Century Modern Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Mid-19th Century Chinese Painting on Rice or Pith Paper
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Mid-19th century Chinese Painting on Rice or Pith Paper. Gouache or opaque watercolor of a student & attendants. Note remarkable details including marble panelled chair...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
$384 Sale Price
68% Off
A Chinese export reverse-glass painting after an English print in original frame
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Canton, late 18th century
In original hardwood frame with ruyi-shaped metal mount for suspension.
H. 38.7 x W. 44.3 cm (incl. frame)
H. 31.8 x W. 37.5 cm (image)
Chinese reverse glass paintings for export are known since mid 18th century. By the 1780's the copying of European, mainly English, engravings came into vogue in Chinese paintings on glass...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Export Antique Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Hardwood
Chinese Extraordinary Outer Space Moonscape Natural Stone "Painting"
Located in South Burlington, VT
Extraordinary natural work, one of a kind. Custom framed
This Chinese extraordinary natural stone "painting" of an outer space nightscape suggests our universe of countless moons and stars and might remind us of a similar and unique evening experience in our lives. The powerful and colorful depiction is executed in natural dark green- almost black, cream and yellow (limonite mineral) colors. This is called a dream stone Shih-hua. They are cut from historic Dali marble found in the Cangshan mountains of western China. These mysterious mountains, unique in the world, are known for yielding incredible and fantastic natural landscaped works of art created over tens of millions of years from mineral inclusions that affected the process of ancient organic material which transformed into limestone and finally resulted in marble- a metamorphic hard stone.
This art form is centuries of years old since the Ming dynasty. Dream stones became favored art in the west particularly since the 19th century when French collectors named them Pierres de reve.
This thin marble stone "painting" is approximately 1/4" thick and is cut from a large slab of rough material revealing incredible patterns in soft white and gray colors. Its weight is surprisingly modest- easily hung with standard hardware.
Dimensions:
Frame: 25 inches high and 25 inches wide.
Site: 16.75" diameter
Provenance: Private Chinese collection, Yunnan, China.
History of dream stone "paintings":
Moonlight stones...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Marble
$1,340 Sale Price
44% Off
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