Framed in early to mid-century 1900's by Art-Lore gallery with the following description written "Hand Painted Chinese Ancestor". This beautiful pair of quality hand painted Chinese ancestors was owned at one time by Channell Interiors in Tuscaloosa, AL whose label remains on the back of the framed lady painting. Many of the designs and highlights are gilded with gold. The vintage frames have some wear and a few chips in them and the backing paper is coming undone. The pictures in frame measure 12.5" x 9.5" each with wire and screws in back for hanging.

These two framed Chinese ancestor painting are of the following:

A seated man who appears to be a high official wearing the red headed crane emblem on his Mandarin square. His hat is topped with three pearls one atop the other with a red ribbon at the base. He is wearing a large pearl necklace. His hands are covered in gilded blue silk. A skinned tiger is on his throne with the head and claws under his seat.

A seated woman who appears to be of noble birth and is wearing a jade colored fengguan with three birds and three strings of pearls draping from each side. She is wearing a dangling jade earring in each ear. Her Mandarin square resembles water or snakes and her xiapei has gilded stars topped with a tasseled yunjian with a sun and stars around the shoulders. There are gilded dragon like flowing creatures on her orange robe with a green and black robe under that. A skinned tiger is on her throne with the head and claws under her seat.