A PORTRAIT OF AN ELEGANT LADY WITH A RUYI SCEPTRE

Description:

China, ca. 18. Jh.
130 x 80 cm (142,5 x 90 cm R.)
Ink and colors on silk, mounted and framed under glass, wooden frame with metal suspensions. The standing lady dressed in multi-layered patterned robes with wide sleeves. She wears rich jewelry with earrings and jade rings on her belt. Her hair is elaborately styled and she holds a ruyi scepter in her right hand. Signed lower right: made by Fang Junrui, two collector's seals.Left lower four more collector's seals.
From an old European collection, collected before 1990 - Traces of age, silk browned, edges probably cut off, partly wear