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Lot 96
A Large Chinese Ancestor Portrait
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
20th century, ink and colors on canvas, painting of husband and wife wearing formal court robes with rank badges seated in front of an altar table with incense burner and paintings behind, framed under plexiglass, not examined outside of the frame. Ancestor portraits were created to be placed in a family shrine area for remembrance and tribute to a family's ancestors.

Frame dimensions 81 x 50 in.

From the Estate of the Late Mimsy Blackwood Mason, Pittsboro, North Carolina

Creasing to fabric; sewn up center; some losses to paint; a crack to plexiglass cover to lower right.