**A Pair of Small Portraits

19TH CENTURY

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**A Pair of Small Portraits
19th Century
Gouache on ivory

Each finely painted with a Chinese woman: one holding a camelia shown leaning on a railing in a garden; the other shown playing with a young child
3½ x 2.5/8in. (8.9 x 6.6cm.), period frames (2)

Lot Essay

A set of four similar paintings on ivory, in slightly more ornate frames, were included in the exhibition, Oriental Jewellery and Works of Art, The Oriental Art Gallery Limited, London, December 1994, no. 166.

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