Sale 2090
New York
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22 April 2008
Price realised
USD 10,625
Estimate
A CHINESE EXPORT BLACK, GILT AND POLYCHROME-LACQUER EIGHT-PANEL SCREEN FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, EXTENSIVE AREAS OF REDECORATION With a continuous scene of courtly figures and peasants at various pursuits within garden pavilions, lakes and mountains surrounded by a lush inner border of birds and butterflies within floral vinery and an outer border of stylized floral vinery punctuated with floral spray and landscape cartouches, the reverse decorated with panels of exotic birds perched in branches within a continuous lotus vinery border, the whole raised on a later pierced fretwork base 108 in. (274.5 cm.) high, 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) wide, each panel
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