Lot 200 , An album of six Chinese paintings on silk of lovers, late Ming dynasty, with six adjacent pages of calligraphy on paper, pages separated, some losses to images and calligraphy

An album of six Chinese paintings on silk of lovers, late Ming dynasty, with six adjacent pages of calligraphy on paper, depicting a man courting a lady in a garden, a lady bathing by a lotus pond, a maid and her mistress in a pavilion room, two lovers separated by a mother threading a needle, a couple walking in a garden and a young man presenting flowers to a girl, album 32cm x 26cm

Provenance- together with transcripts of the inscriptions translated by Ting Pei Yuan, Shanghai 1933 pages separated, some losses to images and calligraphy
£6,000-7,000

Condition:
In generally tired condiiton with some losses and blemishes throughout, one page of script is mostly missing, otherwise marks / blemishes / fading and minor loss evident throughout the other pages to varying degrees.

Sold for £6,500