South African & International Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery & Vintage Couture
Online-Only Auction, 15 - 29 September 2014
Decorative Arts and Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
About this Item
A Chinese ancestor portrait, late 19th/early 20th century
painted with a seated civil official and his two consorts, each dressed in ornate robes bearing the ninth rank badge of the paradise flycatcher, his chair flanked by two standards emblematic of the seasons, water damage, cracking, creases, some areas of loss, probably relined, 147,5cm high, 95cm wide
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