Set of Four Genre Paintings, China, 19th century, each depicting an interior scene with a figure, one with an old master seated in a tiger skin chair; one with a man kneeled in a worship ritual; a woman holding a flower in her right hand; and a woman working with skeins of silk threads, watercolor on paper, framed (lacquered) and glazed, the glass with straw marks and bubbles, sight size 16 5/8 x 13 3/8 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

not examined out of frame, all with a degree of water damage, buckling to some areas, flower one with trace of retouches, wear and tear and lack of luster to lacquered frames.


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