Description
The subject appears to be seated on a chair carved to resemble bamboo, and lacquered and gilded. The face is somewhat crudely handled, perhaps suggesting the work of an amateur.
Provenance
A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Inscriptions
[Monogram] Engraved on back, bottom: RCN
Credit
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
