Description:

China/Mongolia, ca. 1800 to 1850 century CE. A painting on silk depicting a Mongolian hunty party and encampment, very similar to an example donated by Captain Frederick Marryat to the Royal Asiatic Society of London. The composition features a processional hunting party donning long robes and carrying red banners on path surrounded by mountains on both the left and right. Beneath the party on the right is an encampment of gents resting and communing either pre- or post-hunt with an arrow-filled quiver suspended from a tall tree and a pair of bactrian camels in the lower corner. In the center are several vignettes of active hunting scenes including a hunter drawing his bow, aiming at a running tiger, a group of five men on horseback poised for the hunt, and above them in the distance a group of five men (of a very small scale) beneath a bird that has just been struck with an arrow. The painting also features other animals that the Mongols domesticated such as horses, sheep, and camels. A rare example floating on a silk matt and mounted in a white matt and blonde wood frame. Size: painting measures at least 21.5" L x 29.5" W (54.6 cm x 74.9 cm) but extends underneath the matt; framed 28.75" L x 36.5" W (73 cm x 92.7 cm)

Provenance: Ex -Denver, Colorado collection

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