Sold for:
$150
$150
Chinese School, 20th century. A pair of large format hand painted ancestral portraits on silk depicting an aged man and woman each seated on a wooden chair draped in brown cloth with small white flowers, the male wearing a blue robe and the female in a red robe each with phoenix and dragon decoration, each also in an ornamental headdress, their chairs set to wooden platforms surrounded by peony motif on ground and set before a golden wall. Each silk apparently mounted to paper set within a stained wood frame with brass mounting hardware to top center. Overall approximately 59.5" x 40". Painting approximately 48" x 34".
Auctioneer:
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery
Date:
2016-12-04
