Lot 455
  • 455

Chinese School, late 19th Century

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Chinese School, mid-19th century
  • Portrait of a Girl
  • oil on canvas
  • 21 in. by 15 1/2 in.

Catalogue Note

the long thin scarf in the present lot was popularized in the late 19th Century. For a painting with a woman painted with a similar scarf but in an interior setting, see Anthony Lawrence, The Taipan Traders, Hong Kong, 1992, p. 91. See also a pair of portraits of women wearing similar attire sold Christie's New York, September 22, 1995, lot 510.