AN ANCESTOR PORTRAITQing Dynasty Ink and colour on silk, depicting an elderly gentleman in red Ming dynasty court robes, mounted, glazed and framed. The painting, 90.5cm (35 1/2inin) x 161cm (63 1/2in)Footnotes清 人物像 設色絹本 鏡框裝裱 Compare with a related portrait of a Censor dressed in Ming style court robes, but probably 18th century, in the Art Museum, Princeton University, illustrated by J.Stuart and E.Rawski, Worshipping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits, Washington, 2001, p.107, no.4.12, where the authors note that although the painting is in the Ming style, it is probably a later copy to replace an earlier one in an ancestral temple.
AN ANCESTOR PORTRAITQing Dynasty Ink and colour on silk, depicting an elderly gentleman in red Ming dynasty court robes, mounted, glazed and framed. The painting, 90.5cm (35 1/2inin) x 161cm (63 1/2in)Footnotes清 人物像 設色絹本 鏡框裝裱 Compare with a related portrait of a Censor dressed in Ming style court robes, but probably 18th century, in the Art Museum, Princeton University, illustrated by J.Stuart and E.Rawski, Worshipping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits, Washington, 2001, p.107, no.4.12, where the authors note that although the painting is in the Ming style, it is probably a later copy to replace an earlier one in an ancestral temple.
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