Live Auction 2380Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
TEN CHINESE RICE PAPER PAINTINGS
Lot 37

TEN CHINESE RICE PAPER PAINTINGS

YOUQUA, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed27 September 2011

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TEN CHINESE RICE PAPER PAINTINGS
YOUQUA, MID-19TH CENTURY
Depicting a variety of butterflies amongst colourful blossoming sprays and foliage, later mounted and framed, one bearing paper label 'Youqua Painter/Old Street No. 34'
11¾ x 15 in. (30 x 38 cm.) overall (10)

Specialist note

Youqua was based in Hong Kong and Canton. For a brief review of his work, and the output of his contemporaries and their studios, specialising in silk covered pith paper watercolour albums produced for export, see C.L.Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade, Woodbridge, 1991, pp.198-202.