[CHINA]. Chinese erotic album. China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century.
Album composed of 8 erotic paintings on silk and of 8 paintings on paper depicting a wood-like pattern facing them. The set has been pasted on paper and mounted as a brochure “in an accordion shape” (Leperello). A few foxing. The album is protected with two solid wood covers.
Dimensions of the illustrations: 245 x 170 mm. Dimensions of the book closed: 325 x 200 mm.
Superb album composed of 8 erotic watercolors on silk depicting a couple in various erotic embraces in eight different environments, indoor as well as outdoor.
The first painting encloses a small cartouche with inscriptions in Chinese.
The watercolors painted on silk have been mounted as a brochure “in an accordion shape” (Leperello).
The Chinese artist showed great delicacy in the execution, as much in the rendering of the atmospheres, by painting in details the furniture, the objects of the everyday life and the clothes of the characters in bright colors, as in the rendering of the expressions of the various protagonists.
