Anonymous (Qing Dynasty)
Miao people's daily life, Miaoman tuInk and pigment on paper, each inscribed with a paragraph describing the scene, ten leaves mounted as an album. Each 24.5cm (9 5/8in) x 20cm (8in)
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Provenance: Christie's, London, early 2000s (by repute).Miaoman tu or Bai Miao tu is a primarily visual genre that emerged in 18th century Imperial China. Referring generally to the minority peoples in China's southwest, rather than to groups that called themselves Miao (Hmeng), these officially-commissioned albums were produced predominantly for Manchu and Han nobles, scholars, and gentry, and are very interesting as they reveal how Imperial China viewed culturally 'other' frontier populations.See other paintings of similar subjects sold by Christie's, Ex Libris Jean R. Perrette: Important Travel, Exploration & Cartography, New York, 5 April 2016, lot 266; and Sotheby's, Arts D'Asie, 23 June 2016, lot 178.