An album of six Chinese paintings on silk of lovers, late Mi...

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An album of six Chinese paintings on silk of lovers, late Ming dynasty, with six adjacent pages of calligraphy on paper, depicting a man courting a lady in a garden, a lady bathing by a lotus pond, a maid and her mistress in a pavilion room, two lovers separated by a mother threading a needle, a couple walking in a garden and a young man presenting flowers to a girl, album 32cm x 26cm

Provenance- together with transcripts of the inscriptions translated by Ting Pei Yuan, Shanghai 1933 pages separated, some losses to images and calligraphy

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27th Jun 23 at 9:30am BST