The first depicting a seated official wearing a blue robe emblazoned with a four-toed dragon and rank badge featuring a paradise flycatcher (lanque), framed under glass (DOA 47.5 x 18 in.); the second portrait is of a woman with an elaborate pearl headdress, she wears a red robe decorated with four-toed dragons and a badge with paradise flycatcher as well, framed under glass (DOA 45.25 x 20.5 in.).

From the Estate of Captain Benjamin Soule Gantz and Ethyle Offutt Gantz, Shanghai, China and Washington, D.C.

Purchased in Shanghai in the 1920s.

$200 - 400