Ancestor portrait painting, China, 19th century Ink and polychrome on paper. Portrait of a seated mandarin's wife, dressed in a quasi-official sleeveless hsia pei jacket, with a buzi or mandarin square indicating rank in the civil or military hierarchy. She wears a quasi-official mandchu apron-skirt. Classically decorated with dragons, lingzhi clouds, celestial mounts, etc., she wears a sophisticated di guan headdress and a mandarin chao zhu necklace. She is seated on a wooden armchair set on a carpet decorated with numerous flowers. Quality painting with very fresh colors. 166 x 84 cm