THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A CHINESE COROMANDEL LACQUER EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN decorated with an extensive scene of courtly life within a palace, with elegant figures amidst trees and buildings, clouds and mountains beyond, in an inner border of dragons and scrolls and a woven border of two domestic utensils, with an upper border of fans decorated with landscapes, the reverse with deer, birds and large trees within a conforming border, 19th Century, the feet with later semi-elliptical tips

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A CHINESE COROMANDEL LACQUER EIGHT-LEAF SCREEN decorated with an extensive scene of courtly life within a palace, with elegant figures amidst trees and buildings, clouds and mountains beyond, in an inner border of dragons and scrolls and a woven border of two domestic utensils, with an upper border of fans decorated with landscapes, the reverse with deer, birds and large trees within a conforming border, 19th Century, the feet with later semi-elliptical tips
each leaf 97½ x 17in. (248 x 43cm.)

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