Sale 2553
New York
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22 - 23 March 2012
Price realised
USD 40,000
Estimate
A GREEN STONE-INSET RED LACQUERED SOFTWOOD TABLE SCREEN 17TH CENTURY With attractively figured green stone panel framed by shaped reserves enclosing quatrelobe panels, all above shaped aprons carved in openwork at either end, the frame set into shoe feet carved with circular reserves borne atop billowing clouds surmounted by standing spandrels carved in open work with further scrolls 18½ in. (47 cm.) high, 18 7/8 in. (47.9 cm.) wide, 10 3/16 in. (25.8 cm.) deep
Provenance
Art of Chen, Taipei.
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