Beschreibung:

AN EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT IMPERIAL COURT PAINTING OF THE BANNERMAN YISAMU (ISAMU) ATTRIBUTED TO AI QIMENG (IGNAZ SICHELBART) (1708-1780) AND JIN TINGBIAO (FL. 1757-1767) QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, DATED TO THE GENGCHEN YEAR (CORRESPONDING TO 1760) THIS IS A PREMIUM LOT. CLIENTS WHO WISH TO BID ON PREMIUM LOTS ARE REQUESTED TO COMPLETE THE PREMIUM LOT PRE-REGISTRATION 3 WORKING DAYS PRIOR TO THE SALE. hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, portraying the First Class officer of the Imperial Guard, with a distinguished war-weathered face and soulful eyes having witnessed the ravages of the battlefield, donning a fur-lined hat marked by a clear blue glass bead and a peacock feather with a single-eyed plume, dan yan hua ling, dressed in fine chain mail over a bright blue surcoat, with thickly padded silk riding chaps with a woven Y diaper pattern tied around the waist covering the legs, shod with a pair of black silk boots with white soles, his left hand grasping a buffalo horn archer's bow encased in a tooled leather bow casing, the quiver filled with arrows some with two types of fletching, and a ceremonial sword with an embellished gilt hilt and a shagreen sheath, his right thumb - the bow-drawing thumb -protected by a white jade thumb ring, eulogized with several lines of text written at the top on the right side in Chinese in kaishu (standard script) and in Manchu on the left, with one seal of the Qianlong Emperor, Qian Long Yu Lan Zhi Bao painting: 153.5 by 95cm., 60 3/8 by 37 3/8 in.