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CHINESE SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Portraits of thirty-four bust length Chinese Emperors from Fu Hsi (2852BC) to Ch-ien Lung (1736-1795)
each inscribed and captioned on accompanying sheets
watercolour and bodycolour on paper
10¬ x 8¬in. (27 x 22cm.) (34)
£4,000-6,000 US$5,000-7,400
€4,600-6,800

PROVENANCE:
Anon. sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 20 August 2000, lot 976.
There is an album of portraits of 86 emperors of China, probably by the same hand, in the British Library (Or. 2231).

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