A Chinese Scroll Painting Signed Qiu Ying. 80 x 67cmThis auction features an extraordinary collection of Chinese art, provided by Mr. Andrey Bogdan Mechnikov from Ukraine. He is a descendant of the family of Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov.Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov also written as Elie Metchnikoff (1845 - 1916), was best known for his pioneering research in immunology. Mechnikov was born in the village Ivanovka, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire, now located in Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. In 1908, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of his research on phagocytosis, a form of immunity performed by white blood cells.The Mechnikov family is very proud of their ancestors, and everyone in the family has inherited the spirit of research. Mr. Andrey Bogdan Mechnikov's grandfather was passionate and obsessed with Asian art and had explored and collected numerous exceptional collections in China and Europe. This habit of the art collection was also passed on to Mr. Andrey Bogdan Mechnikov.Unfortunately, Mr. Andrey Bogdan Mechnikov has no choice but to sell these long-cherished collections from his grandfather due to unforeseeable reasons. "I would never want to sell my treasures. These archaic collections all retain traces of my memory. I truly hope the next collectors who own these collections can understand their historical significance and continue to pass on them. "