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(US$5,000-6,000)
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A THREE-PANEL TABLE SCREEN
FIRST HALF OF 19TH CENTURY
The central panel overlaid with a bird perched on a flowering peony tree issuing from rockwork between narrower panels similarly decorated, the painted bone on a pale blue ground, the reverse in black lacquer with similar decoration in gilt, the top of the frames embellished with a shaped flange finely carved with a floral meander extending onto the sides, the base of the frames carved with archaistic dragon-scrolls, all supported on the stand intricately carved with scrolling foliage and a low pierced scrolling balustrade
35 3/4 in. (91 cm.) high
FIRST HALF OF 19TH CENTURY
The central panel overlaid with a bird perched on a flowering peony tree issuing from rockwork between narrower panels similarly decorated, the painted bone on a pale blue ground, the reverse in black lacquer with similar decoration in gilt, the top of the frames embellished with a shaped flange finely carved with a floral meander extending onto the sides, the base of the frames carved with archaistic dragon-scrolls, all supported on the stand intricately carved with scrolling foliage and a low pierced scrolling balustrade
35 3/4 in. (91 cm.) high