Sale 1404
New York
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8 - 9 September 2004
Price realised
USD 896
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A CARVED AND LACQUERED WOOD PANEL MEIJI PERIOD (CIRCA 1900), WITH INCISED SEAL KYUEN, carved in sunken relief with a guardian emerging from a cave, his eyes inlaid in shell, the reverse with a gnarled tree trunk silhouetted by the rising moon in gold lacquer, the tree in wood inlay with the leaves stained dark 42 x 25¾in. (106.7 x 65.4cm.)
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