Chinese Hand-Colored Lithographs of Man and Boy with Red Crowned Crane

Item Details

In Plate

A pair of Chinese hand-colored lithographs on paper. These pieces, printed with black ink and then colored by hand with watercolor, depict a man seated beneath a rock formation in one, and a boy looking a red-crowned crane in the eyes in the other. They have loose linework printed to resemble ink painting, and colors that bleed out slightly. The pieces have Chinese text and red seals printed in the image area, with the first along the bottom and the second on the left side. Both are finished with white silk damask borders.

Condition

- fraying to edges of borders.

Dimensions

- measures borders of one item; page measures 13.0" W x 13.0" H; will arrive rolled in shipping tube.

Item #

18IND017-150-001