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Lot 2025
A Chinese Portrait Painting with Poem
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Qing dynasty (1644-1912), likely 17th or 18th century, ink and colors on paper, a female figure sits under a pavilion dressed in a plain blue robe, one arm rests on a marble stone inlaid writing table with a peach bloom vase and bowl of fruit, below a young girl attendant brings tea towards the pavilion, very nice details and brushstrokes to the painting, inscription to the top right corner contains a poem, with silk brocade mount to sides, framed under glass, with decorative Chinese style hanger at top, not examined outside of the frame.

Frame dimensions 41 3/8 x 21 3/8 in.

Overall toning to paper; scattered losses and repairs to the painting; two large cracks to paper to lower center of composition; facial area and head of central woman appear to have repainting and restoration; blue and red pigments are deep and vivid.