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413
ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL
19th century
Pigment on paper, depicting a high-ranking Mandarin seated before
a ‘dragon’ screen, beside an elegant lady wearing a cap with a five-
eyed peacock feather, a servant boy kneeling before the dignitary and
proffering a bowl, glazed and framed.
49cm (19 1/4in) high x 36.3cm (14 1/4in) wide.

£2,500 - 3,500
CNY23,000 - 32,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十九世紀 外銷人物畫 紙本設色 鏡框裝裱

414
A ANCESTOR PORTRIT OF AN OFFICIAL AND LADY
19th century
Ink and pigment on paper, depicting an official in blue robe with
square badge and mandarin hat, seated beside his wife wearing an
exquisitely-detailed red robe with gilt decoration, both seated on chairs
draped with tiger-skins, glazed and framed.
60cm (23 1/2in) wide x 62.5cm (24 1/2in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
413
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十九世紀 祖先像 紙本設色 鏡框裝裱

Provenance: Richard G.Pritzlaff (1902-1997), by repute

來源：傳為Richard G.Pritzlaff（1902-1997）舊藏

Richard Pritzlaff lived in a ranch at San Ignacio in New Mexico,
which he owned since the mid 1930s. He was particularly interested
in collecting Chinese portraiture. He agreed to a gift-purchase
arrangement with Arthur Sackler who then acquired his collection.

415
ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL
Early 19th century
Ink and watercolour on Whatman paper, a set of four depicting elegant
court figures, one court figure wearing an official’s hat trimmed with
a peacock feather and dressed in a finely detailed fur overcoat, one
depicting a man of high rank clad in a yellow jacket with dragons, with
double-peacock feather on his cap and carrying a bow and arrow, and
two each depicting a lady of high rank dressed in richly coloured robes
414 decorated with clouds and phoenixes, framed and glazed.
41.5cm (16 1/4in) long x 29.5cm (11 5/8in) wide. (4).
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十九世紀早期 外銷人物畫 紙本設色 鏡框裝裱

The reverse of the paper is stamped J Whatman 1805, showing
these watercolours are of higher quality than conventional pith paper
paintings, because their imported paper was manufactured by the
London rag-papermaker James Whatman.

See a related example illustrated by C.Clunas, Chinese Export
Watercolours, London, 1984, fig.24.

415 (two of four)

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254 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.