A CHINA TRADE PORTRAIT FOLLOWER OF SPOILUM, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

oil on canvas, depicting a seated Chinese merchant, wearing a brown fur coat over a blue silk robe, with a snuff bottle clasped in his right hand and with a spinach jade archer's ring on his left thumb, beside a marble-topped table, with a famille-verte porcelain vessel supporting his mandarin hat, framed

There is overall craquelure to the surface of the painting. The lower edge is covered in a strap of green overpaint. There is a faint vertical crease line along the left side of the painting. There are faint milky-white patches predominantly on the lower half of the painting which should benefit from sympathetic cleaning.
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