Lot 339
  • 339

AN ALBUM OF FIGURAL PAINTINGS QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • paper
ink and colour on paper, portraits of ladies, album of fifty leaves

Provenance

Collection of Ernest Hamilton Sharp (1861-1922) OBE, and appointed King's Counsel for the colony of Hong Kong in July 1902.  

Condition

The leaves of the album have worn edges, with yellow stains to the left side of some, and to the cover. Some of the leaves have become loose from the cover.
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