Lot 84 , Two Chinese School paintings on paper of ladies, 18th/19th century, 142cm x 41cm, framed and glazed

Two Chinese School paintings on paper of ladies, 18th/19th century, the figures standing in a mountainous landscape, inscribed lower left, silk brocade borders, 142cm x 41cm, framed and glazed
Estimate £250-350

Provenance: the estate of the late Jean-Claude Lepileur (1926-2016)

Both of these scroll paintings have been later mounted with brocade borders and are framed and glazed
Image of two ladies in a garden have some creases to the paper all over, there is a tear upper right below a pagoda roof and a tear through some of the trees in the centre of the images, there is some scratches to the paper above the left seated figure and a diagonal scratch going across the right seated figure, also appears to be some flaking to the painted decoration in the lower part of the image
Second painting of four ladies in a garden again has a few occasional minor scratches to the surface, general browning and fading to the image and again there is some flaking and loss to the decoration in the lower part of the image where a lighter paper is showing through beneath.


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Sold for £5,500