“The painting of a Vietnamese woman with lotus signed Nguyen Thi Chin, 1958, Saigon, a ravishingly beautiful watercolor on silk of an elegant Vietnamese woman with long flowing black hair tending to lotus blossom water plants, brocade border, with brocade border, framed under glass, not examined outside of the frame. Dimension: 26,5×19,5 inch; with border and frame: 36×25,25 inch. From the Estate of the late Princess Lechi Tran Oggeri Rodriguez of Vietnam and Fayetteville, NC. A direct descendant of the Emperor of Annam, Lechi was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, the daughter of the late Princess Nam Tran and the late Ambassador Tran Van Chuong.
Thus, “Maiden picking lotus” was once owned by one of the most famous families in Vietnam.
