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A LARGE FRESCO DEPICTING A PAIR OF CELESTIAL MUSICIANS, YUAN-MING DYNASTY
奥地利
2025年10月16日 开拍
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China, 13th-16th century. Finely painted in polychrome pigments on stucco with details neatly picked out in gesso relief. Depicting a pair of musicians standing amongst wispy clouds, their fine green and blue robes and red ribbons billowing naturalistically in the wind, their serene faces accentuated by finely arranged hair, bound by a ribbon and a phoenix-form pin; one maiden raising her tasseled flute, a dizi, to her lips.Set inside a hardwood frame, behind glass. (2)Provenance: Collection of Gottfried Henrich Crone, Amsterdam, and thence by descent in the family. Gottfried Henrich Crone (1884-1961) was born to Eduard Henrich Crone (1852-1918) and Helena Rebecca Ernestine Muller (1862-1945). His father was a prominent merchant, working for the firm HG Th. Crone, a trading company that imported agricultural products from the Dutch East Indies and exported luxury goods. A love of art was instilled in him from an early age. His parents were active art collectors, with an emphasis on the Hague School of painting.Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, traces of weathering, encrustations, cracks, fading to pigment, few losses, light scratches, some flaking with associated touchups, all as expected.Dimensions: Image size 125.5 x 55.5 cm, Size incl. frame 141.5 x 72.5 cmThe painting belongs to an important group of Buddhist stucco works dating from the Late Yuan to Early Ming dynasties, featuring 'Court' and 'Paradise' scenes from monasteries that date from the 12th to 13th centuries, containing a painting repertoire favored during the Tang dynasty. The style of painting in this fresco is reminiscent of the Tang dynasty painter Wu Daozi (c. 685-758) and was ideal for painting religious figures. Unlike earlier modes stressing precise contours, the whirling spiritual energy of this brushwork gives the impression of qi, or inner life.The style of the present fresco is inspired by the late Tang dynasty temple painting style. This is evident in the treatment of the roundness of the 'melon-seed'-shaped faces and the billowing robes, giving a dynamism to the work, which was popular amongst builders and decorators of Buddhist temples of the time and continued throughout the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. Ming painters of Buddhist subjects sought to mimic the style of the Tang dynasty artist Wu Daozi, considered a master of Buddhist mural paintings. Examples of Ming paintings executed in the tradition of Wu are discussed in 'Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850' by Helen Foresman, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, 1995, pages 55 and 446. Followers also studied and adhered to Wu's Eight Classes of Supernatural Beings (Tian Long Ba Bu Zhen Ji), whose classification included 'celestial beings, musical demigods, and mythical bird-gods'.The dizi is a traditional Chinese transverse flute used in many genres of Chinese folk music, Chinese opera, as well as the modern Chinese orchestra. Traditionally a dizi is made from a single piece of bamboo. On traditional dizi the finger holes are spaced equidistant, which produces a temperament of mixed whole-tone and three-quarter-tone intervals.Literature comparison: Compare the sculpture and murals in Cave 57 of the Mogao grottos at Dunhuang, illustrated in Roderick Whitfield et. al., Cave Temples of Mogao, Art and History on the Silk Road, Los Angeles, 2000, p. 37, as well as the murals of bodhisattva in caves 172 and 199, illustrated in Chang Shuhong, The Art Treasures of Dunhuang, Hong Kong and New York, 1981, paying close attention to the garments and ornamentation of the figures.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1771Price: USD 62,500 or approx. EUR 68,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A rare large polychrome fresco, Ming dynastyExpert remark: Compare the closely related manner of painting, composition, and motifs. Note the larger size (145x99 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Sotheby's New York, 11 September 2019, lot 816 Price: USD 37,500 or approx. EUR 40,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A polychrome stucco fresco fragment, Yuan / Ming dynasty Expert remark: Compare the closely related manner of painting and techniques. Note the smaller size (77.5 x 45.5 cm).

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