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CHINESE EARLY QING DYNASTY PAINTING ON SILK

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CHINESE EARLY QING DYNASTY PAINTING ON SILK
CHINESE EARLY QING DYNASTY PAINTING ON SILK
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Two phoenixes in a floral garden. Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk. Visible silk size: 186 x 55cm (73 x 21 3/4 in.) Provenance: Collection of Sidney Aster, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. This painting was gifted to Professor Aster by Sir Arthur Salter (Lord Salter) (1881-1975) in the early 1970s when Professor Aster was working in London and met with Sir Salter on a regular bases. Sir Salter was in China in the 1930s on behalf of the British government, and these paintings would have been brought back from China on that trip. The detail of his trip is detailed in Professor Aster's book, Power, Policy and Personality: The Life and Times of Lord Salter, 1881–1975.英国著名政治学者Sir Arthur Salter于1970年代早期贈送多倫多大學教授Sidney Aster。英国犹太人索尔特(Arthur Salter,1881年生于牛津, 牛津大学毕业,是位经济学家,后从政)在国联创建之初即任财经运输部长(Director of the Economic,Financial and Transit Section),在国联负责财经约十年,在此期间熟悉了欧洲大多数国家及印度和中国的财政管理,并常与美国接触。后以国联官员的身份奉派赴印度和中国帮助各自政府所面临的财经问题。1931年春抵达上海,同年6 月索氏经美国回英;1933年他再次访华,但已不是国联的官员,而是宋子文邀请的中国政府的客人。首次在上海时,他遇到了有创造性的国联卫生部长拉西曼,拉氏在其密友宋子文的支持下在华建立了一套令人注目的公共卫生设施, 在尔后的六周及两年后都有较近的交往接触, 与蒙内特(Jean Monnet )、 德鲁蒙德(David Drummond. 1961 年时已为LordPerth)及一久居中国的法国人和一些其他人, 共同处理了一些中国的问题。他来华是为中国政府服务,而不是为在华的外国人,所在南京的时间比上海多,上海是主要的商业和政治中心,因为是西方势力的主要所在地;南京是个新首都,北京虽自民国以来为首都,但只驻外国大使,他们的注意力却是在南方。有一段时间,蒋介石让弗里尔和他住在城墙外靠近中山陵山脚一夏居,宋子文每天来,告知翌日要咨询的问题。蒋介石问他如何去平衡预算。蒋氏、孔祥熙和宋子文最初给他的任务之一是照管严重亏损的国有招商局。索氏第二次离华时决定不再回来,他认为中国社会腐败,积重难返。其在华的详细描述见其《一公务员回忆录》(Memoirs of a Public Servant.伦敦,1961年,355页), 这时他已是勋爵了。他在华时曾写了不少关于中国财政的报告,当时曾引起日本人的注意及翻译。
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CHINESE EARLY QING DYNASTY PAINTING ON SILK

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