chinese-satirical-empress-painting
Lot 841
Chinese Satirical Empress Painting
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Republic Period, circa 1935, ink and color on silk, painting, a New Culture movement satirical style depiction of an empress in her chariot or cart, pulled by a giant rooster and surrounded by seven female attendants, presented under glass in a red and gold painted wooden rectilinear frame. DOA 22 x 36.5 in; painting 18 3/4 in x 33 1/2 in.

From the Collection of Joseph Casole Bampton & Isabel Bampton, Proprietors of The Incurable Collector, Richmond, VA

Paint loss and foxing to silk painting; paint loss to frame.

$300 - 500