Ladies floating down a waterway in two pleasure boats with musical accompaniment
Chinese School
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1740 - circa 1760
Materials
Ink, watercolour, mulberry paper, wood, glass
Measurements
290 mm (H)270 mm (W)355 mm (H)330 mm (W)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271100.1
Summary
One of a set of six Chinese paintings on paper depicting ladies and their servants engaged in various activities in the grounds of a large mansion or palace, in a European rococo carved wooden frame with acanthus leaves scrolling around a straight moulding, probably mid eighteenth century. This picture shows ladies floating down a waterway in two pleasure boats with musical accompaniment.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax following the death of Thomas Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield, in 1960 and allocated to the National Trust, along with the rest of the collection, house and park at Shugborough.
Makers and roles
Chinese School, artist