TWO ANCESTOR PORTRAIT PAINTINGS QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 清 祖先像紙本設色 鏡框（共兩幅） ink and colour on papers, one painted with a seated male court official holding a folded fan in his right hand, rosary beads in the left, wearing a fur-lined black robe; the other painted with a female figure similarly dressed with elaborate sleeves and green pleated shirt, framed

(158cm x 90cm each)

Provenance: Private English collection, London; acquired by late Jack Franses (1927-2010) at a house sale in Chester in 1980s. Jack Franses was an expert in textiles, tapestries and oriental carpets, and a former Head of the Islamic Art Department at Sotheby’s and Senior Director at Sotheby’s in charge of Middle East and India.