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Subject:Chinese ancestral portrait
Posted By: M Tue, Mar 20, 2018 IP: 58.136.63.92
Chinese ancestral portrait







Subject:Re: Chinese ancestral portrait
Posted By: Bill H Tue, Mar 20, 2018
The writing on the lantern starts with three characters, which look to read right to left as 光祿寺 (Guang lu si) - "A light of good fortune from the government office". The writing then reads down in the vertical stack as 署正加四級 (Shu zheng jia si ji) - "The bureau has arranged an increase to fourth class". As usual, I invite corrections to my reading here.

I'd say from the painting style that this probably is an authentic Qing portrait of the lucky imperial bureaucrat, though I believe I've read (probably here in the forum somewhere), that beyond the face, content in these paintings often was completed in advance of an order.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Subject:Re: Chinese ancestral portrait
Posted By: rat Tue, Mar 20, 2018
looks pretty good

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Subject:Re: Chinese ancestral portrait
Posted By: I.Nagy Wed, Mar 21, 2018
According to the results of my short net searching. The Guanglusi （光禄寺）was the name of government ministry in charge of guards and attendants in the imperial palace. This office in 1906 merged into the Ministry of Rites.
署正加四級　- Administration Department, Official in the Fourth Rank
(Nine-grade official ranking system in dynastic
China)

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: Chinese ancestral portrait
Posted By: M Fri, Mar 23, 2018
thank you

Subject:Re: Chinese ancestral portrait
Posted By: M Fri, Mar 23, 2018
thank you

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