View our vast collection of beautiful paintings-notably the Nigensha fine reproductions of museum art masterpieces from originals at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Liaoning museum and Shanghai museum. These priceless classic museum pieces are the result of intensive research and effort. Don’t miss out the opportunity to own these masterpieces.
Featuring Lang Shih-ning: Album of Flower Paintings
Description: Ching dynasty / album, 16 leaves / ink and colour on silk / mounting – 47.0 x 39.2 cm each.
Guiseppe Castiglione (1688 – 1766), Lang Shih-ning by Chinese name was a native of Milan, Italy. He became a Jesuit missionary at the age of twenty-seven and went to China, where he served as a court painter under three Ching emperors; namely Kang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Chien-lung. He was skilled in human figure and bird-and-flower paintings, and became the favourite of the painting circles of the times with his minutely realistic works utilizing the Western style of painting. This is the finest collection of small works representing his true character.
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About Nigensha Paintings
These fine reproductions of museum art are coveted by collectors everywhere. Its true-to-life reproduction is achieved through high precision quality colour printing techniques.
- Photographing : A large size full-automatic camera five meters long and weighing three tons has been specially developed for photographing at the National Palace Museum
- Plate Making and Printing: Super-precise offset printing using eight to twelve colours has been realized with the utilization of computerized plate making under the full cooperation of Tokyo Inshokan Printing Co. Ltd.
- Paper: Special paper has been developed to satisfy extremely difficult conditions such as adapting to high technology printing, maintaining the appearance and texture of the original works, and being suitable for mounting.
- Fabrics: Special synthetic fabrics with finer and more homogeneous fibres than natural silk yet having the appearance and texture of genuine silk have been newly developed to faithfully reproduce the fabric of the originals executed on silk as well as the twillsilk of albums and handscrolls.
- Mounting: The mountings of albums in booklet form and handscrolls are faithfully reproduced in respect of their twill silk, woven patterns and title pieces. Hanging scrolls are mounted in the traditional Chinese style while adopting the characteristic features of their original mountings.
- Packaging: Handscrolls are wrapped formally in sumptuous crepe silk-type square cloth and hanging scrolls in fine tissue paper. Each is placed in a traditional Japanese paulownia wood covered box which is packed in a gift box.
- Commentaries: Each work is equipped with a booklet containing the commentary and interpretations as well as the explanations of the title characters, eulogies, inscriptions, colophons and seals. The commentaries are by Mr Chiang Chao-Shen, Deputy Director of the National Palace Museum.
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