, Song Dynasty, fine pen, ink and watercolour on silk, 650 x 420 mm (25.5 x 16.5 ins), mounted on silk scroll, with manuscript title label, silk tying thread, handles missingQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: A.W. Bahr Collection. 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.