Sale 2387
Hong Kong
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26 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 68,750
Estimate
XU XI (born 1940) View of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong Scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper 34.3 x 137.5 cm. (13 1/2 x 54 1/8 in.) Inscribed, signed with three seals of the artist Dated jiyou year (2005)
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