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Lot 1046
A Chinese Watercolor Painting of Flowers
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Qing dynasty (1644-1912), ink and colors on silk, finely painted with Chinese red wool flowers, white and yellow chrysanthemums, emerging from a craggy rock, in upper left corner is calligraphy together with two red seals, silk brocade mount, cut from previous hanging scroll format and framed in heavy wooden faux bamboo frame with two hangers, not examined outside of the frame.

DOA 54.5 x 37 in.

Estate of the late Katherine H. Booker, Halifax, Virginia

Some large areas of discoloration to silk; dark color substance in vertical lines dripped throughout the painting; some dirt to surface; some vertical and horizontal creasing.