19th century, red ink on stone rubbing on paper, the pair with large sprays of orchids to each vertical panel, one panel with boulder at top, orchids were admired by the Chinese literati as a symbol of loyalty and unappreciated virtue, inscription to upper right hand side of each painting, and another inscription to lower left center on one, these are probably poems, laid onto a silk brocade mounting, framed in identical ornate rope style gilt frames under glass.


Frame dimensions 73 x 21 in., Sight size 63 x 16 3/4 in.

The Estate of J. Clint, Jr and Ansley Newton of Shelby, North Carolina

Acquired in China from an art dealer during the 1970s, thence by descent.

For similar ink rubbings from the 19th century, see examples at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1924.36.3) and Princeton University Art Museum (y1958.217).

Overall good estate condition; some soil and dirt to top and bottom edges; a few tears; some scattered wear and losses to paper; not examined outside of the frames.