This 3ft 7in x 24in (1.08m x 60cm) ink and colour on paper of mandarin ducks swimming amid lotus blooms is by Chen Zhifo (1896-1962).
It is one of a small group of Chinese paintings that come for sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on November 23 by descent from the collection of Field Marshal Sir Archibald P Wavell (1883-1950).