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A CHINESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER SEVEN-LEAF SCREEN
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A CHINESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER SEVEN-LEAF SCREEN
17TH CENTURY
Decorated overall with courtly figures promenading, making music, weaving and writing, with fishermen and peasants beyond, on an extensive island landscape with temples, pagodas and bonsai trees in a trailing vine border and hatched outer border, painted with flowers, horses, bulls, dogs, deer, other animals and bowls of flowers, the reverse decorated with trailing vines within a repeating foliate border, on block feet, restorations, lacking screws, possibly originally with a further leaf
90¾in. x 28¼in. (230.5cm. x 72cm.)
17TH CENTURY
Decorated overall with courtly figures promenading, making music, weaving and writing, with fishermen and peasants beyond, on an extensive island landscape with temples, pagodas and bonsai trees in a trailing vine border and hatched outer border, painted with flowers, horses, bulls, dogs, deer, other animals and bowls of flowers, the reverse decorated with trailing vines within a repeating foliate border, on block feet, restorations, lacking screws, possibly originally with a further leaf
90¾in. x 28¼in. (230.5cm. x 72cm.)