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Lot 2027
A Large Chinese Ancestor Portrait Painting
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Qing dynasty (1644-1912), 19th century or earlier, ink, colors and gold on paper,
woman wearing a red winter robe with a rank badge to center under a belt with a mottled jade buckle, an elaborate phoenix headdress with pearls rests on her head, luxurious accessories to the portrait such as a damask blanket to the back of chair, and golden skirt peeking out from under the hem of her red coat, heavy wood frame with glass and hanger at center top.

Frame dimensions 56 x 28 3/4 in.

From the Collection of Archie Carter III and Michael Joyce, Greensboro, North Carolina

Extensive loss and restoration to paper; creasing to paper; some ares of staining and ink spots; lower left corner of glass is broken and missing; not examined outside of the frame.