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TRIBUTE BEARERS', YUAN-MING DYNASTY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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'TRIBUTE BEARERS', YUAN-MING DYNASTYChina, 1279-1644. Ink, gilt, and watercolors on silk. Finely painted with four foreign tribute bearers in ceremonial procession, the work presents a striking array of exotic figures and treasures. At the left, an attendant in long robes clasps an tusk, while beside him another leads a green horse dappled with yellow spots, its back laden with a lotus pedestal supporting a vase of auspicious emblems. Behind, one figure balances an enormous conch shell filled with coral and pearls upon his head, followed by another advancing with a monumental vase held to his chest.Provenance: From an old Bavarian private collection, assembled since the early 1960s.Condition: Good condition overall, with expected wear. The colors are well preserved, particularly the red, commensurate with age. The silk shows small tears, some abrasions, a few minute associated losses, and small repairs. The narrow brocade frame may have been trimmed. The glass has a minor loss to one corner. This painting was possibly once part of a larger composition.Weight: 6 kg Dimensions: Image size 52 x 68 cm (excl. passepartout), 70 x 100 cm (incl. passepartout)Mounted in a frame behind glass. (2)This painting belongs to the illustrious tradition, begun in the Tang dynasty, of depicting foreign tribute bearers laden with exotic gifts for the Chinese court. This celebrated genre was codified in the lost masterpiece Tribute Bearers by Yan Liben (ca. 600-673), preserved today only through a Song dynasty copy in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. There, envoys from distant lands appear with sharply differentiated features—high-bridged noses, deep-set eyes, and curling beards—carrying treasures such as coral branches, tusks, vessels of precious metal, and rare animals. More than a record of a diplomatic procession, such imagery proclaimed the Empire's grandeur and its role as the axis of the known world.The present work draws directly on this legacy. The foreign attendants, rendered with marked physiognomies and colorful dress, advance with exotic marvels: a vessel brimming with coral, a giant conch shell, and a fantastical spotted beast. These details resonate with the visual vocabulary of Yan Liben's archetype, while anticipating the later Yuan and Ming fascination with tribute imagery, from horse processions to the famed giraffe presented to the Ming court. In reimagining the Tang paradigm, the painting situates itself within a long and celebrated pictorial lineage that affirmed imperial authority through the wonders carried from the four quarters of the earth.Literature comparison:Compare a related silk handscroll titled Central Asians Presenting Tribute Horses, 31 x 192.8 cm, traditionally attributed to Han Gan (ca. 715-after 781) but dated early to mid-15th century, in the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, accession number F1915.16. Compare a related scroll painting depicting a tribute bearer with a giraffe, dated to the Ming dynasty, 90.4 x 45, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Compare a related silk handscroll depicting tribute bearers, attributed to Ren Bowen (act. 1300-1350), Yuan dynasty, 34.8 cm × 221.6 cm, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, object number B60D100.

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