Auction 159 Asian Art

133

A Chinese ancestor portrait of a court lady


Estimate

1.500 - 2.500


Session

8 May 2026


Description

China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century

Pigments on silk

Depicting a court lady seated in a formal frontal pose, wearing a ceremonial robe (chaopao) with a red ground decorated with dragons amidst multicoloured clouds

The chest bearing a rank badge (buzi) with a tiger, identifying the figure as the wife of a fourth-rank military official

With a ceremonial headdress set with pearls and lateral pendants

On a carpet with floral and ruyi motifs

(Framed under glass; with scattered foxing)



命妇画像,中国,清代,十九世纪。绢本设色,绘四品武官夫人正面端坐,身着红地云龙纹朝袍,胸缀虎纹补子,头戴珠饰朝冠,垂挂两侧流苏,足下铺如意花卉纹地毯。(带框装玻璃;有散布霉斑)

107x72 cm



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