A Chinese twelve-fold coromandel lacquer screen
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A Chinese twelve-fold coromandel lacquer screen

18TH CENTURY

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A Chinese twelve-fold coromandel lacquer screen
18th Century
Carved through the dark brown lacquer ground and painted in a multitude of colours with phoenix, herons, peacocks, pheasants and smaller exotic birds and ducks among a luscious vegetation of flowering lotus, magnolia, plum blossom, peony, hydrangea, flanked to the sides with 'The Hundred Antiquities', the bottom and top bordered by panels of flowering fruit and plants between narrow bands of stylized lotus scroll, some damages and restoration
252 cm. high x 46.5 cm. wide
Provenance
Christie's Amsterdam, The Collection of Decoration Empire 'Selling the Taste', 12-13 April 2005, lot 472
Special notice
Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €20,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €20,001 and €800.000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €800.000. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

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