Description ink, colours and gold on paper, painted with walled pavilions, pine trees and blossoms before a mountainous landscape, with courtiers and their attendants, with floral silk border and black painted wooden frame heightened with metal fittings, unsigned, applied with two later pierced hanging brackets, overpainting, foxing, 66,3cm high, 122cm fully extended
Condition Report Accompanied by the invoice. Each panel from left to right measures 31cm wide, 30cm wide, 29,8cm and 31cm wide including border and frame Age related wear Foxing especially in the blue ground The silk with age related wear The hanging brackets are later The brass to the frame with oxidisation The black frame with wear The panels appear to have been overpainted with the gold leaf An area of loss measuring 0,9 by 05cm to the second panel from the left to the edge of the lower gold leaf cloud The third panel from the left with two water marks in the upper blue ground and age folds below The fourth panel with loss measuring 0,7 by 0,2cm to the upper section of the gold leaf and there are age folds in that area The join where the top and bottom halves of the painting meet is visible in parts throughout The reverse with ares of paper loss
Provenance Purchased from Lohan Fine Arts, Grays Mews, 1-7 Davies Mews, London, W1, 25 January 1985.