Chinese Gouache Hanging Scroll of Birds in Flowering Tree

Item Details

Paper
By an Unknown Hand

A Chinese gouache painting on paper mounted to a hanging scroll. The piece depicts a group of birds roosting and flying among the branches of flowering trees with green leaves and delicate pink and yellow blooms. It is inscribed to the upper left with black ink and is marked with a red seal. This work is mounted as a hanging scroll on paper embellished with silk gauze. It is weighted with a dowel and wooden knobs to the lower section and hangs with a string affixed to the upper section.

Condition

- dirt, water stains and wear present to sides and top of scroll; the pigments have bled through to the back of the paper; possible light damage; creasing to paper and painting from rolled storage; foxing and toning present, with small stains, markings and discoloration throughout; item is presented as an unframed rolled scroll.

Dimensions

- measures rolled; unrolled measures 34.5" W x 79.25" H; item will arrive rolled in a shipping tube.

Item #

18DAL049-083