Two horizontal paintings on a blue background with lake scen - Lot 249

Two horizontal paintings on a blue background with lake scenery, China, 19th century Album pages. Ink, polychrome pigments and gold on paper with silk surround. Decorated in the shanshui - 山水 - style, one depicts a lakescape with boats and figures, the other a rocky landscape with pagoda, pavilion, bridge and river. 34.3 x 47 cm Wear and small chips. There is a particular style of Chinese landscape painting called 青绿山水 - Qinglu Shanshui using mineral dyes, mainly green and blue. During the Song dynasty, artists and scholars would add is - 泥金 (composed of glue and powdered gold or other metals) to the pigments. These landscape paintings are 金碧山水 - Jinbi Shanshui. Our two paintings, using the same technique, can be compared with certain works by Gong Xian (1618-1689).