Chinese antique ancestral portraits on rice paper with new silk matting

Dynasties of Asia is proud to offer this unique set of rare ancestral portraits, dated mid Q'ing Dynasty, approximately 175-200 years old. 

This pair of portraits on rice paper has been professionally restored from its original and deteriorated cotton matting, and carefully placed on a new and heavy cotton paper matting with silk border.

Portraits, such as these watercolor originals were commissioned when the male figure was promoted to higher political office.
In this particular case, the male figure was promoted as a bureaucrat or courtier. The coat, known as pufu was embroidered with a mandarin square, and in the square field of the coat is a paradise flycatcher.  This is indicative of a bureaucrat of the ninth rank.

The female portrait, who was likely the wife of the bureaucrat reveals a Mancu style hairdressing, which is typical of that era's rendering.

What is unique about the female portrait is the onlay of thick pearl-like paint on the hairdressing, to give the impression of silver and semi-precious stones.

This pair of portraits require special art handling and will be rolled and shipped in waterproof tubes. This set of Q'ing Dynasty ancestral portraits are quite worthy of investment.