STILL LIFE DEPICTING ASIAN ANTIQUITIES AND OLD EUROPEAN BOOKS China/Europe, dated 1910 54 x 46 cm, R. Oil on canvas, at the lower right corner inscribed with initials P.P. 1910, the work depicting an Asian vessel and a turquoise glazed porcelain figurine as well as old European style books. The painting style suggest the work being made by a Western artist as genuine oil painters were not common in China at the beginning of the 20th ct. From an important German private collection, assembled between the 1980s and 1999 Small loss of colours and crackles at the right edge and in the depiction of the cloth at the lower edge