TWO LARGE 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 depicting a seated couple before a half-folded floor screen showcasing three paintings, the figures wear black robes with a bird rank badge; the other painted with a male court official wearing a black robe with a ninth-rank 'quail' badge, sitting on a chair covered with red cloth on an elaborate floral floor, framed

(166cm x 98.5cm; 165cm x 95.5cm)

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.