NORMAL PRIORITY PROJECT

This exquisitely crafted piece depicts a vast mountainous landscape with numerous trees, including flowering plum trees. Walled buildings, pavilions and figures engaged in various activities are visible in the foreground. Particular attention has been dedicated to particular detail: the trunks of the Chinese pines are represented with all their ribs and knots as well as their crowns. The numerous figures, each meticulously dressed, are engaged in various outdoor activities that suggest a day of leisure. The work has an inscription in Chinese characters 甲申皋月擬郭忠恕意畫於绿野堂,邗上袁耀, in the style of Guo Zhongshu (ca. 929-977), painted in the fifth month (May) of the Jiashen year (1764). Painted by Yuan Yao at the ‘Pavilion of the Green Meadow’ (绿野堂), in Hanshang (邗上) Hanshang is the Hanjiang district in the city of Yangzhou, Jiangsu province. There is square red intaglio seal with four characters in classical seal script, read right to left, top to bottom: 袁耀之印 Yuányàozhī yìn, “Seal of Yuan Yao”. Below, a square red intaglio seal with three characters: 昭道氏 Zhāodào shì, (courtesy name). 

Total Cost: € 85.122,00 ($ 100,154.55)

The piece is in a poor state of preservation. It has numerous deformations and folds visible across its entire surface, drops and holes at the edges, small and large gaps, stains, areas of severe yellowing and darkening, scratches and abrasions to the pictorial layer, and small gaps and adhesive residue.

• Anoxic disinfestation
• Preliminary studies, research and laboratory analysis by the Scientific Research Laboratory
• Graphic documentation of execution techniques, state of conservation, and all phases of the intervention.
• Photographic documentation by the Photographic Laboratory and the Ethnological Materials Laboratory.
• Disassembly of the different constituent elements of the work.
• Mechanical and chemical cleaning of the surfaces.
• Restoration of cuts, tears, and gaps.
• Localized humidification and flattening of the artefact.
• Chromatic adjustment Study the assembly process.