Lot 471 , Chinese school, 18th / 19th century, 34cm.

Chinese school, 18th / 19th century, painting on silk of two ladies observing a bird on a perch, amid rockwork and beneath a prunus tree, inscribed lower right, 27.5 x 25cm., within later brocade pattern borders and mounted in an early 20th century Chinese rosewood frame, 34cm.
Estimate £400-600

Generally discoloured, the silk has been laid down on silk, 2cm tear at the top of the picture, there is a small disguised hole above branches of tree, there are four similar small holes in front of the ladies around the fence, some whiteish patches in places.



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Sold for £600