A Chinese ancestor portrait painted in ink and colour on paper depicting a seated official wearing a jewelled crown and a red and gilt richly embroidered robe decorated with dragons chasing flaming pearls above foaming waves, her official badge of office decorated with a pheonix and further dragons among cloud scrolls, a floral and foliage carpet at her feet and a screen behind her painted with peonies, chrysanthemums and other flowers issuing from rockwork -- 53½in.x 28in.See Illustration.