, attributed to Lang Shih-Ning (1688-1766), Qing Dynasty, fine pen, ink, watercolour and bodycolour on silk, titled in black ink lower left, with artist's seals, 605 x 325 mm (23.75 x 12.75 ins), mounted on silk scroll, with manuscript label, silk tie, one handle missingQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: A.W. Bahr Collection, with small circular handwritten sticker affixed to the foot of the manuscript label: BAHR L 47.112. Abel William Bahr (1877-1959), collector of Chinese art and antiquities, and Secretary of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. A.W. Bahr is the author of Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China, being descriptions and illustrations of articles selected from an exhibition held in Shanghai, November 1908, published in 1911. A survey of Chinese paintings in the Bahr Collection by Osvald Siren was published by the Chiswick Press in 1938. Lang Shih-Ning was the adopted Chinese name for the Italian Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione, who served as an artist at the Imperial Court of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. His work represents a fusion of Western and Chinese traditions.