A CHINESE POLYCHROME-DECORATED BLACK AND GOLD COROMANDEL LACQUER SIX-LEAF SCREEN, decorated overall with bonsai trees, crysanthemums and lilies in a rocky watery landscape with cranes, peacocks, swallows and other birds on a gilt ground with clouds above, within a repeating scrolled dragon border, the outer border decorated with vases of flowers, moon vases, cooking utensils with moonstones and household objects on a black ground, on arched feet, Kangxi, early 18th Century, with some later European decoration, and later gilded

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A CHINESE POLYCHROME-DECORATED BLACK AND GOLD COROMANDEL LACQUER SIX-LEAF SCREEN, decorated overall with bonsai trees, crysanthemums and lilies in a rocky watery landscape with cranes, peacocks, swallows and other birds on a gilt ground with clouds above, within a repeating scrolled dragon border, the outer border decorated with vases of flowers, moon vases, cooking utensils with moonstones and household objects on a black ground, on arched feet, Kangxi, early 18th Century, with some later European decoration, and later gilded
Each leaf 92¾ in.x 17¼in. (236cm. x 43.5cm.)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., Trent Park, Hertfordshire recorded in the Dining Room in 1939
Literature
'Trent Park', The Antique Collector, December 1938, p. 346 (illustrated in situ in the Dining Room)

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