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Thu, Mar 2, 2017 03:00PM EST - Fri, Mar 3, 2017 03:00PM EST
Lot 101

Two Chinese Ink and Watercolor

Estimate: $25 - $500

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$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
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$3,000 $250
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$10,000 $1,000
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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000
Ancestral Portraits of an Empress and an Official's Wife 19th century, the Empress seated in a chair and wearing an elaborately embroidered red robe and headpiece, 46-3/4 x 23 in., gilt and black-lacquered hardwood frame, [extensive foxing in background overall]; official's wife with a blue floral-embroidered robe and white bird first rank badge, him 27 x 21-1/4 in., her 23-1/2 x 44 in., black-painted Asian frame, [extensive foxing to beige ground overall, minor surface losses within painting and crease lines]. Provenance: From the Collection of Dr. J. C. Gilbert, Jr., Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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