Family Happiness

Rooster, hen, and chicks in the middle of chrysanthemums, with two twirling bees, such is the subject of this painting, the collophon of which tells us that Shaoyu, responding to Yuqi's request, painted this painting "Good Fortune in the house for Master. ...". The two characters of the dedicatee's first name have been voluntarily censored and replaced by a white rectangle. A hollow seal is affixed between the second and third characters of the inscription: Seal of Jia Shaoyu. This takes the form of an open book fascicle, where the binding would run between the two columns. The characters are therefore deformed as on a curved page. This kind of stamp is found until the beginnings of the Republic (1912). it is a genre painting relating to the image of New Year. The gallinaceans "Ji" are homophones of "Ji", good omens, auspicious events. More precisely the wishes expressed could be for a year of the Rooster at the beginning of the 20th century. Sold with certificate.