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Lot 116
A Chinese Painting of a Cormorant and Bamboo
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Ink and colors on paper, calligraphy to upper left corner together with red artist's seal, a finely painted cormorant in profile perched above the water on a piece of wood under arching bamboo stalks, cormorant were trained by the Chinese to assist fishermen and were highly regarded in China, framed, not examined outside of the frame.

Framed dimensions 47 1/4 x 24 5/8 in.; Sight size 35 1/4 x 19 in.

Overall toning to paper; some darker areas of toning to the paper; some areas of foxing; not examined outside of the frame.