Author: [Original drawings]
Title: Mongolian horsemen with falcons, cats and rabbits. [Eight original paintings on silk].
Description: Mongolia, mid to late 19th to early 20th century. Oblong (27 x 35 cm). Eight paintings on silk, each mounted on large, iridescent silk sheets, and framed behind glass. Early to mid-20th century black varnished, bevelled wooden frames, each measuring 38.0 x 47.5 cm. = A suite of eight, uniform-sized paintings, each depicting a hunting scene, and all in uniform frames. The animals, including a cat or lynx, and a white rabbit, may be of a symbolic nature; two paintings, however, showing falcons, depict a genuine hunting method. One frame differs slightly from the others in being thinner, without bevelled edges. Some wear to the frames, the varnish partly abraded; silk irregularly spotted, as if it has been painted on the versos too. Colouring vivid and strong. A very nice, unique ensemble.

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