East Asian Painted Hanging Scroll With Figures Gathered by a River

Item Details

An East Asian ink and paint illustration on paper, mounted to a fabric scroll. The piece depicts a group of three male figures gathered on one side of a river and reading a scroll held up by an elderly woman on the other side. The work is signed in black calligraphy and a red seal to the lower left. It is mounted to tan patterned fabric and presented under glass in a gold tone wooden frame with hanging wire to the verso.

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Condition

- to Fair; toning and foxing present to paper and fabric; staining to backing fabric, most noticeably to lower right; scroll is wrinkled and somewhat buckled inside frame; scratching and scuffing to frame.

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Item #

17HOU037-184