Lot Essay
The two flower baskets were likely to have been a complete single basket cut into two, forming a pair of wall hangings
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF FLOWER BASKETS BY 'JIN FU'
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each 'bakol bunga' holding a lavish spray of chased and filigree flowers with a dragonfly and a beetle alighting on the flowers, the tapered three-panelled body of the basket with each facet enriched by fine filigree flowers with numerous leaf-shaped fringes supported by a florette-link chain, with Chinese pure silver hallmarks wen yin and shopmark jin fu, minor losses
43.2 cm. long including chain (2)
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each 'bakol bunga' holding a lavish spray of chased and filigree flowers with a dragonfly and a beetle alighting on the flowers, the tapered three-panelled body of the basket with each facet enriched by fine filigree flowers with numerous leaf-shaped fringes supported by a florette-link chain, with Chinese pure silver hallmarks wen yin and shopmark jin fu, minor losses
43.2 cm. long including chain (2)