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Chinese Ancestor Portrait

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 710109 (stock# 60-57)

Chinese Ancestor Portrait
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(203) 208-0771


$600 

This large hanging scroll with a painting of a Chinese civil official and his wife could be called minimalist within the genre of Chinese ancestor portraits. It is executed in the classic ancestral portrait style, with the subjects facing directly forward, seated on a chair with a rounded back and footrest, the man with hands and shoes showing and the woman with her robe completely covering hands and feet. The difference between this and many other ancestor images is in spareness of decorative e ...click for details


Chinese Ancestor Portraits Of Official, Wife, Mother

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1920   item# 686337 (stock# 60-53)

Chinese Ancestor Portraits Of Official, Wife, Mother
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Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771


$600 

This Chinese ancestor painting mounted on a hanging scroll groups together a civil official, his wife and his mother. Although ancestor portraits usually show only a man and wife together or on separate paintings made to be displayed side by side, we have seen a few that include two women and a man. Our catalogue listing #08-60, a very large ancestor painting on hemp, shows a similar group of three. We just assume the second woman is the mother and, in the hemp piece, one woman obviously is much ...click for details


Chinese Ancestor Painting

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1837 VR   item# 141645 (stock# 08-60)

Chinese Ancestor Painting
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$3000 

This nine-foot-long painting on hemp was commissioned by a grandson in memory of his great grandfather, Wang Wan Yin. It is Taoist in nature. Calligraphy across the top of the painting honors the ancestor as "Official of Heaven." The inscription down the the right side reads "Respectfully dedicated by an unworthy grandson in memory of his great grandfather Wang Wan Yin." On the left side, the date of the painting is shown as a symbol that signifies a point within the 60 year ...click for details

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