of broad rectangular format, depicting a lady with a child on her lap, a maiden with a duck standing behind the chair, a landscape visible in the distance, and a vase of flowers in the foreground, borderd with scrolling naturalistic flowers within gold ground cartouches

In good overall condition, painting has been re-laid on strips of wood, slightly warped, resulting in a crack beneath the lacquer in the lower middle portion of the work, some cracquelure around the borders, as viewed.
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