Description: Ink and color on silk, mounted on fabric coated paper, wooden scroll handles
China, 18th century
Fine depiction of a pair of oriole birds, one seated on a blossoming prunus tree and watching the other which is captured in elegant flight with spread wings. Light pink peony blossoms are reaching into the imagery from the left.
Signed on the left side in very neat Chinese calligraphy 'Shiqiao Cheng Buxun xie' and stamped with two artist seals. Backside bearing a collector seal and the inscription (= translated from German) ‘Flower branches and birds – Qianlong period’ as well as other collector codes.
In Chinese tradition the oriole is the bird of joy and music.
Shape: Rectangular vertical shape
Dimensions: 222 x 59 cm (total size), 84 x 45 (size of the painting)
Condition: Painting with tears and small holes as well as touch ups, mounting shows tears and minor material loss as well
Provenance: Old Austrian Private collection, assembled in the 1930s to early 1950s
十八世紀程步峋款絹本設色《喜上眉梢》
畫面有水跡和輕微材料損失
奧地利私人老收藏,上世紀三十年代至五十年代間購入